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joether -> RE: You see ? NO politicians are not all the same. (8/18/2014 11:07:49 PM)
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...this is an ego trip because Miss. is an blanket open primary state. There is no hope and they may even throw it out.
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So the Tea Partier dislikes that democracy worked and wants to try every trick (clean, dirty, and foul alike) to be declared a winner. Well, his hatred, stupidity and lunacy have dug him a hole so deeply, he'll never run for public office again. He seems to act like a child (typical tea partier behavior btw) in that black people are not allowed to vote. All in all, its amusing to watch how fellow tea partiers react to this in every other mannerism except saying "ok, enough is enough, stop doing this crap as your making us look like total idiots and loons'.
The only way there is hope, is if McDaniels & Co. can prove that more than 7800 (or by however many he lost) +1 votes were cast illegally (ie. Democrats casting votes in the Republican runoff after having cast votes in the Democrat primary is not legal). If he can't do that, he has no case.
Was it a dirty trick? I don't know that I'd agree it's dirty, but it was definitely a trick. Was it legal? The "trick" itself was legal, but all the votes cast due to the trick might not be legal. The key is in how many weren't legally cast.
All over the web...info. is that Miss. is an open primary state. Dems and repubs can vote in either's primary. Here
Yeah, that's not the same issue, MrRodgers. It isn't a question of open primaries or not. It's about voting in a party primary and then voting in the other party's runoff. That was the sticking point. And, as it seems, that may or may not be a sticking point, either.
http://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/2014/07/30/gop-attorney-miss-law-prohibits-crossover-voting/13348489/quote:
An attorney for the Mississippi Republican Party says state law does not prohibit people from crossing over to vote in party’s primary and another’s primary runoff, an issue in Chris McDaniel’s presumed challenge to his GOP runoff loss to Sen. Thad Cochran.
“You heard me right,” said Michael Wallace, attorney for the state Republican Party. “There is an attorney general’s opinion on the subject, but that is all. The attorney general may be right. I wasn’t telling the judge that the attorney general wasn’t right. I was telling her that the issue has never gone to court. ... The attorney general may be 100 percent right, but the issue has not been tested in court that I know of. It may have came up in a county court somewhere that hasn’t made it to reported cases. But to the best of my knowledge, it hasn’t been tested. All we have is an attorney general interpretation.”
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Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann has advised election officials, based on a 1988 attorney general’s opinion, that there is a statutory prohibition to crossover voting, Hosemann spokeswoman Pamela Weaver said Tuesday.
The 1988 opinion, issued to a Natchez city attorney, said, “Crossover voting may be defined as participation in the first primary of one political party and participation in the runoff primary of another party. Several attorney general’s opinions and case law has defined the first and second primary as one election process. The runoff primary has been described as a continuation of the first primary.”
The opinion said that Mississippi law that prohibits voting in more than one primary on the same day covers the primary-runoff scenario.
Mississippi Code 97-13-35 says:
• “Any person who shall vote at any election, not being legally qualified, or who shall vote in more than one county, or at more than one place in any county or in any city, town, or village entitled to separate representation, or who shall vote out of the district of his legal domicile, or who shall vote or attempt to vote in the primary election of one party when he shall have voted on the same date in the primary election of another party, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction, shall be fined not exceeding two hundred dollars, or be imprisoned in the county jail not more than six months, or both.”
An attorney for McDaniel on Tuesday did not respond to a request for comment.
Mississippi Democratic Party Chairman Rickey Cole said it has been a fact of election conduct and training for decades that a voter who has voted in one party’s primary is prohibited from voting in the other party’s runoff.
“Every runoff in living memory has been conducted under that law in that fashion,” Cole said.
Cole said the Democratic Party does not permit voters who voted in the Republican primary to vote in the Democratic runoff. He said those who conduct Democratic primaries have all been trained for many years by the secretary of state to that effect, and it is stated in the secretary of state’s training materials.
This isn't just about open primaries or closed primaries.
Its still McDaniel's to show evidence 'beyond a shadow of doubt', that each and every person whom voted, would be voting for the same individual in the general election. And do this...BEFORE...the election. Its safe to say this is the most silly argument into the courts. This guy and his legal team have a time machine no one knows about? Because that is the ONLY way of knowing how those voters....MIGHT....vote in the general election.
This guy is an idiot and loser. He lost the election process fair and square and cant handle it like an adult. Just another Tea Partier behaving like a little child. What else is new....
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