BradBlog: So why was the 'Tea Party' trio locked inside Hinds County election HQ at 2am

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10666

You may have already heard at least some of the bizarre story about three "Tea Party" supporters of Mississippi's Republican U.S. Senate candidate Chris McDaniel who found themselves locked inside the Hinds County Courthouse around 2am on primary election night last Tuesday. McDaniel himself is now locked in a run-off for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate against six-term Senator Thad Cochran, after the nail-biter on Tuesday which left the two men reportedly about 1,400 votes apart out of more than 300,000 cast.

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The McDaniel campaign might, arguably, have had a motive to manipulate ballots or election results on Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, but --- presuming the county election officials are correct in their assessments --- without direct access to the ballots themselves, the optical-scan tabulator memory cards or the central tabulator computer system, the hapless "Tea Party" trio would seemingly have had neither the means nor opportunity to do so.

What they were doing in the Hinds County Courthouse then --- all alone in the middle of the night after the primary election --- remains a Mississippi mystery.

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Thank you, Brad, for being on top of this story!