I commented to Lurker about the "intend to support the party" law, noting that it swings both ways. What about Cochramn backers who are undercutting McDaniel? What are they going to do in the general? No matter how you cut it, those questions just draw the outcome of the primary contest into more doubt. Same outcome for the election contest, the runoff has to be repeated. New outcome for individuals caught in violation of the law.
That's very true and today's press release confirms those very things including many other things. It was announced the McDaniel legal team have more than 10,000 pages of documented fraud.
As to the unforceable 'intent' law, it does not apply to Cochran or McDaniel voters. Had the primary results come out 'clean', there is no violation of law when a republican voter votes in the republican primary and then votes in the republican general regardless of who was specifically voted for in the primary. A republican vote can have every intention of voting for whoever the republican nominee is in the general. The law pertains to the nominee, not the candidates.
The purpose of the 'intention' law was ostensibly designed around rules that made for an 'open' primary. Its aim was to warn voters not to calculate that a primary vote for the weaker opposition candidate would enhance the candidate they truly intended to vote for in their party's general. It's a dumb law.