Discussion: Chris McDaniel's Lawyer: We've Found 'Thousands' Of Ineligible Voters

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“Tyner declined but said he would have more on that later in the week.”

Please send us money now tho. We don’t have any actual evidence, but we will as soon as we have enough money…

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How do they know these “ineligible” voters cast their ballots for Thad Cochran?

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Perfect.

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Name three.

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Shocked!
Shocked that the McDaniel campaign didn’t simply ask for small unmarked bills.

jw1

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Bingo!
And so soon in the thread.

jw1
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If they are absentee ballots, they can tell. But you are right, if cast at the polling place, it is impossible to tell unless the ballot itself is marked up to link it to a specific voter.

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“One reporter at the press conference asked Tyner if he could specify what the McDaniel campaign and McDaniel’s attorney found by going through the absentee ballots on Monday. Tyner declined but said he would have more on that [after their campaign had received enough donations].”

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Under Mississippi law as I understand it, your vote would be invalid if you voted in the first election Democrat and then Republican in the runoff. But McDaniel is claiming that votes are also invalid if you voted in the Republican primaries without intending to vote for the Republican candidate. Many of McDaniel’s supporters who now say they won’t vote for Cochran should be similarly invalidated since they voted in the Republican primary without the intention of supporting the Republican candidate in the general.

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Questions:
In MS how far in advance of a runoff election must an absentee ballot be requested?
Are they requested / delivered by USPS mail only?
What postmarked date-- in days-- can an absentee ballot be received and considered valid-- post election?
How recent prior to the runoff did Cochran start reaching out to AA voters?
Do the timeframes seem congruent?

jw1

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It doesn’t matter. “Ineligible voters” = Black voters.

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Perhaps there’s a Second Amendment remedy?

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“And every one of those — every one of those is going to dilute your vote, it’s going to dilute your vote.”

And then there was Jimmy Two Times, who got that nickname because he said everything twice, like:

I’m gonna go get the papers, get the papers.

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When you don’t win then vote again.

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Bingo. Not even a little bit more complicated than that MSNY.

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That’s not funny not funny.

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I’m guessing they went through the voter rolls and looked for names that sound like the person might be black:

Laura Smithson: No fraud.
LaShawn Cooksey: FRAUD.
Joshua Adams: No fraud.
LaKeisha Johnson: FRAUD.

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Isnt my vote secret?

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“I know there are several thousand that are absolute, inelligible voters”

is categorically NOT THE SAME THING as

“McDaniel’s Lawyer: We’ve Found ‘Thousands’ Of Ineligible Voters”

You’re either leaving out pertinent quotes, making shit up, or generally half-assing things.

How does the reporting here keep getting sloppier?

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