His options now:
1. Pay for the redacted poll books (requires major funds and puts veracity of redacted records by Cochran operatives into evidence; not good here)
2. Concede
3. Take the mountain of evidence in possession now and file the legal challenge to the election. His attorney's said yesterday enough evidence exists to challenge the election and that they will challenge it.
4. Join the True The Vote lawsuit in federal court and obtain the nonredacted original poll books.
5. Obtain a federal injunction allowing for an independent campaign or a write-in campaign.
In my heart, I hope that McDaniel proceeds with option 3 ***because to not do so*** is
* to set the Tea Party movement back, * lose all representation in Congress as it becomes totally controlled by crony interests, and * it weakens Ted Cruz' expanding profile as a champion of conservatives
Anyone who finds that their vote has been “harmed” must file suit...
EVERYONE who perceives harm MUST file an action. There may be some room for voters OUTSIDE of MS to file “amicus” that they were harmed by illegal votes.
Swamp the courts!
Poll books that can’t be examined. Then why even keep them?
The fix is in across the entire country. There is no protection from vote fraud. The bad boys own the system.
I’ve said it many times now - we have seen our last ‘honest’ nationally-impacted election.
We have gone full Soviet - and maybe now some Americans will wake up to what time it is.
But I doubt most will.
First, the federal lawsuit proceeds on its separate merits (an act of Congress regulating federal elections). By federal law, access must be granted.
Second, if the state won’t allow access except upon onerous cost and time-consuming delays, then the appeal to the state courts should proceed based on the evidence in hand and projections where access has been disallowed.
Third, as the U.S. Senate is the final judge of its members, Tea Partiers should inquires of candidates for the Senate throughout the country what standard they will have for accepting a Senator from Mississippi.
OMG I cannot believe that!
It took the Left many decades to install their goons in virtually every court in the country, at every level. They’ve salivated over this very moment when judicial dictators could nullify our democratic process.
Wow, a Barbour-appointed court found against McDaniel. Who’d a thunk it?
He's not.
Proposed slogan for Louisiana license plates “At Least We Are Not Mississippi”
Short summary: the election law guarantees access to "ballot boxes and their contents," but voter rolls are not in the ballot boxes. Voter rolls, therefore, cannot be obtained under the law McDaniel was relying on. They can be obtained under the Public Records Act, but that Act requires that social security numbers, dates of birth and other identifying data be redacted before examination.
I would turn evidence over to FBI to U.S. District Attorneys to start with.
MS PING
supremes support crooks
Mississippi is bought and sold....the Barbour family must be solo proud
6. Form a second party in Missippi.
McDaniel plans to challenge the outcome of both elections, I think. They said that they believe McDaniel won the primary, getting over half of the valid votes on June 3rd. If that argument fails, they can also argue that the results of the runoff are not a reliable indication of the will of the voters.
THE - FIX - IS - IN...
So much for pulling out a Win in Overtime.
This isn’t the World Cup after all. /s
If he has the money, he should do that. He doesn't need voters' DOBs or SSNs to prove that they voted in both the Republican and Democratic primaries. But I suspect he doesn't have the money, or else he would not have pursued the mandamus filing.
2. Concede
He won't. And if he really has evidence of illegal votes, he shouldn't.
3. Take the mountain of evidence in possession now and file the legal challenge to the election. His attorney's said yesterday enough evidence exists to challenge the election and that they will challenge it.
If he has enough evidence to challenge the election, he should do that, and I'm sure he will. But I suspect he doesn't have quite enough evidence yet to overturn the election, because otherwise he would have filed the election challenge already and wouldn't have been pursuing the mandamus route. Time will tell.
4. Join the True The Vote lawsuit in federal court and obtain the nonredacted original poll books.
The argument for obtaining unredacted voter rolls is stronger under federal law than Mississippi law, so this is certainly an option for him. Downside is that federal court moves slowly, and he may not have enough time to wait for a federal decision.
5. Obtain a federal injunction allowing for an independent campaign or a write-in campaign.
Not a serious option, IMHO. "Sore loser" laws like Mississippi's have been upheld against constitutional challenges.