Tea Party Leaders Urge McDaniel to Run as Write-In Candidate Against Cochran

Gateway Pundit ^ | June 25, 2014 | Jim Hoft

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The provision doesn’t exclude writing-in any other eligible person’s name. It merely
provides an example of a permitted name, IMO.

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You are absolutely correct. But that name won’t be counted as long as there is a
living/qualified candidate for all qualified spots for that position on the ballot.

[Praxeologue]

that name won’t be counted as long as there is a living/qualified candidate for all qualified spots for that position on the ballot.

That is not what the statute provides. The only source for above position is an MS SOS employee from 2011.

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Well we can discuss that to the cows come home but it won’t change what the rule says.
Maybe it would be clearer if a period was placed after ‘for’ and not a comma.

But it clearly states a name write-in because of
death, resignation, withdrawal or removal
of any candidate whose name shall have been printed
on the official ballot, ...

Any write-in beyond death, resignation, withdrawal or removal, isn’t recognized per this section of code.

[Praxeologue]

That’s not how my middle school grammar reads it.

[deport]

Okay, no problem as it is what it is and we aren’t the interpreters of the code.