I have a hard time believing Cochran can win a fraud lawsuit. Hinds County may have a lot of blacks, but, in sheer numbers, it does have a lot of Republicans.
2012 Senate race - Hinds County - 67,329 for Gore (D) vs. 31,183 for Wicker (R).
2008 Senate race - Hinds County - 65,157 for Fleming (D) vs. 39,431 for Cochran (R).
About 25K folks from Hinds County voted Tuesday. Certainly less than the 39K from there who voted for Cochran six years ago.
A more definitive breakdown would require precinct-by-precinct totals within Hinds County, particularly where racial minorities make up a majority of voters.
I’ll be that’s where the true story can be told.
An article said there were about 20 thousand registered republicans in Hinds county, yet about 25 thousand voted in the run off. That means that 125% of the registered republicans voted under your scenario. Seems a bit like Philadelphia voting percentages. All they needed to add were the Black Panthers standing out in front of the polls.
Certainly this was the case of democrats voting in this run off. They can go back and find out if any of those democrats also voted in the democrat primary originally. That would be fraud.
The way to show fraud is to find out if some of those who voted in the Republican runoff on June 25 also voted in the earlier Democrat primary. But how could one prove they voted for Cochran unless there is a paper trail? I’m pretty sure no challenge wille ever happen. Voters also dislike such challenges; would rather live in fantasy.