This is a salacious headline and does our side no good. (That’s not directed at you. I’m just pointing it out in general.)
The circuit clerk must, by law, redact SSN and DOB from the pollbooks before providing a copy to the public. (I read MS election code on pollbooks for a long time last night.)
The supporters were not “barred” from seeing the pollbooks. They were told to come back when the clerk had had time to redact the data.
Could the clerk be taking her sweet time? Sure. Did she refuse to provide access? No. There’s enough about this race to be enraged over without this type of hype.
I agree. I started to dig up the info and decided to heck with it. CHAPTER 15 MISSISSIPPI
ELECTION CODE provides for the processes and that is what will have to be followed. Take care.
Maybe MS needs clerk watchers. To insure timeliness and *accuracy*.
Something else I’ve found interesting in digging around the data is that the general election
voter turnout about doubles over the primary voter turnout. In both MS Senator’s
elections there were about 1.2 million voters in the general. Wicker got about 700,000
votes and Cochran got around 760,000 votes. This almost doubles the turnout from the primary.
Where all these voters come from I don’t know. But I suspect this is normal in most
if not all of the other states.