Posted on 09/19/2014 6:11:17 AM PDT by cotton1706
JACKSON — A defeated Senate candidate in Mississippi is arguing that a state court judge was wrong to dismiss his lawsuit that sought to overturn his Republican primary loss to incumbent Thad Cochran.
Attorneys for the tea party-backed candidate, state Sen. Chris McDaniel, filed legal arguments with the Mississippi Supreme Court late yesterday, hours before a midnight deadline.
The arguments mirror what McDaniel’s attorneys had said before Judge Hollis McGehee dismissed McDaniel’s lawsuit last month — that current state law does not specify a deadline for a candidate to challenge a primary loss.
McGehee had agreed with Cochran’s attorneys in saying a Mississippi Supreme Court ruling in a 1959 election dispute set a timeline for trying to overturn a primary loss, and that McDaniel waited too long to challenge results of the June 24 Republican primary runoff.
McDaniel attorney Mitch Tyner wrote in his brief yesterday that the 1959 Supreme Court ruling became irrelevant when the state Legislature rewrote election laws in 1986.
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If the RNC, NRSC, or any other GOP group calls you asking for a contribution, just give them lip about Mississippi.
The legal system will not help lhim in time. He has got to get himself on the ballot if it’s not too late. If it is too late, then he has to get himself as a write-in. I’m not for any Democrat going in if Cock-run loses, but what he did was worse than if a Democrat did get in.
No write-ins in Mississippi.
Simply said, it’s too late.
Believe me, I’m pulling for Chris McDaniel to continue fighting this autrocity tooth and nail until the bitter end. Unfortunately, I have zero faith in the system to do the right thing and disqualify the illegal voting that handed Cochran his completely tainted “victory”.
If McDaniel wins this suit the primary AND general election will be overturned.
Is there any way McDanial can get on the ballot then?
There are actually write-ins allowed under certain circumstances.
We should have keyworded all the McDaniel threads because MS election code is tricky and self-contradictory.. hard to keep up with.
I sure hope you're right. What odds are you giving that this actually happens?
There will be ANOTHER primary after Nov’s general, then ANOTHER election after that primary. Cochran cannot count on the black vote jeopardizing themselves this time.
Cochran’s team has until the 24th to file arguments against the ones McDaniel filed last night, then McDaniel has until the 26th to file arguments against THOSE arguments.
If ‘things’ start to look good for McDaniel, I’d tell Cochran to WITHDRAW NOW, I’ll either beat you again, or Childers will beat you. Either way you are toast.
Well, just point to the recent KS verdict, it doesn’t stop the thugs in black, or those in the DEM party, for doing what they want regardless of the ‘Law’
The most unfortunate aspect of this is that the pubbie party could have avoided it - if they wanted. Change the rules and make it a closed primary - eliminate allowing the dhimmis to come in and act as spoilers.
On the first round McDaniel won. Only shenanigans flipped this election.
Mississippi ping
There are reasons that Mississippi had open primaries. The main one was that the state was in a transition from democrat to Republican and the local offices were held by democrats. On the years of national elections you could vote the Republican primary and on the years of local elections you could vote for your neighbor for clerk or whatever. I hope this changes that and we go to closed primaries. I live in a county with 4 municipilities and in these 4 towns plus all the county offices we do not have any elected democrats.
DO NOT FORGET MS ON NOV. 4!!!
Write ins have to file by the primary filing date.
McDaniels only hope is via a court decision.
I haven’t seen anything against write-in, and the “Other” option was on the primary electronic ballot.
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