Chris McDaniel has already found thousands of irregularities in the Mississippi Republican Senate runoff voting process. According to Mississippi state law, Democrats who voted in the Democratic primary cannot vote in the Republican runoff, and that is exactly what happened. Now True The Vote, the nations leading voters’ rights and election integrity organization, has asked a federal judge to issue a restraining order against the Mississippi Republican Party, alleging that the state GOP may be engaged in the destruction of evidence of alleged voter fraud from the June 24 GOP primary runoff. Our friend Matt Boyle, the Breitbart reporter who has broken or nationalized more news about the Mississippi Republican Senate Primary, reports that True The Vote founder Catherine Engelbrecht said in a statement, “Defendant county commissioners have continued to violate federal law by preventing access to election records. Now, we think we know why… If the affidavits we now have regarding the destruction of election documents and other similarly stunning findings are true, then no Mississippian, no American, can trust the results of this election.” The following nine counties and their respective election commissions have been included as defendants in the case: Copiah, Hinds, Jefferson Davis, Lauderdale, Leake, Madison, Rankin, Simpson and Yazoo. (We note for the record that Yazoo County is the home of former Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour, a key figure in the allegations of vote fraud.) In addition to the Mississippi Secretary of State, the State Republican Party, True the Vote has added ten county election commissions to the suit and asked the Court to immediately order election records be opened to inspection, as outlined in the federal election record maintenance and open records provisions codified in the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (NVRA) (True the Vote, et. al v. State of Mississippi, et. al. (3:14cv532-HTW-LRA)). The new defendants were added when True the Vote refiled in the Southern District of Mississippi, following the motion for relocation by Northern District Judge Michael P. Mills. “Given the importance of the case, it was imperative that we move as expeditiously as possible so dismissal of our suit in the Northern District of Mississippi and re-filing in the Southern District avoids the potential delays in transferring the case...
Posted on: Fri, 11 Jul 2014 11:14:14 +0000