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BradBlog

(2,938 posts)
Fri Jun 6, 2014, 12:34 PM Jun 2014

MS Election Official: No Evidence McDaniel Supporters Accessed Election Ballots or Central Tabulator

Source: BRAD BLOG

MS Election Official: No Evidence McDaniel Supporters Accessed Election Ballots or Central Tabulator During Primary Night Courthouse Caper
So why was the 'Tea Party' trio locked inside Hinds County election HQ at 2am on night of incredibly close race with Cochran?...


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.

But with one of the original headlines about the story focused on the fact that the three had been locked in the empty courthouse "with ballots on Election Night," there remain a number of questions about what actually happened, despite initial reportage indicating that "ballots had been secured prior to the intrusion" and a subsequent report noting that "some precinct information wasn't sealed."

So, The BRAD BLOG contacted the Hinds County Election Commissioners to get more information on the exact type of voting system used there, which aspects of it might have been vulnerable to the three McDaniel supporters alone inside the courthouse, and what type of information was left unsealed there on election night.

We received detail answers to our questions from one of the five Hinds County Election Commissioners --- the one who would, perhaps, have the most reason to be suspicious of the trio of McDaniel supporters...

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


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

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MS Election Official: No Evidence McDaniel Supporters Accessed Election Ballots or Central Tabulator (Original Post) BradBlog Jun 2014 OP
It's entirely possible the night janitor making the final rounds just never saw them bluestateguy Jun 2014 #1
Because they were hiding? RobertEarl Jun 2014 #2
That should be easy to prove. JoeyT Jun 2014 #7
charge them with attempt warrior1 Jun 2014 #3
And they were there because? 6000eliot Jun 2014 #4
To put a back door in the tabulating computer to change the votes in the runoff maybe? Dustlawyer Jun 2014 #5
Read the full story and get back to me! :-) BradBlog Jun 2014 #6
Your story says it's still a mystery why they were there. 6000eliot Jun 2014 #9
I know, right! There is a guy, last name is Spoonamore Dustlawyer Jun 2014 #10
14 years after Bush v. Gore, and nothing's changed. Why is that, DC Democrats??? blkmusclmachine Jun 2014 #15
That is the question. Dustlawyer Jun 2014 #16
So sick and tired of the RW hypocricy and double standards. lark Jun 2014 #8
So the incumbent Republican is the intended victim? And they weren't jailed? Hmmm. 24601 Jun 2014 #12
show us the courthouse surveillance tape from that day and next morniing underthematrix Jun 2014 #11
Reminicent of El Shaman Jun 2014 #13
I'm thinking Forrest Gump Brother Buzz Jun 2014 #14
The alarm system goes off whenever the vault is opened? LiberalFighter Jun 2014 #17
Really? They broke no laws? LiberalFighter Jun 2014 #18

bluestateguy

(44,173 posts)
1. It's entirely possible the night janitor making the final rounds just never saw them
Fri Jun 6, 2014, 12:37 PM
Jun 2014

and then locked the building up.

 

RobertEarl

(13,685 posts)
2. Because they were hiding?
Fri Jun 6, 2014, 12:44 PM
Jun 2014

Or they didn't know what time it was? Or that every night the building closed at a certain time? We should have pity on those poor idiots who had no where else to go that night and forgot where they lived and where they should have been? Surely them being t-bag activists had no bearing whatsoever, and their being lost in the courthouse with all the ballots and the vote counting computers that everyone knows can be hacked was just one big innocent mistake, right?

JoeyT

(6,785 posts)
7. That should be easy to prove.
Fri Jun 6, 2014, 02:03 PM
Jun 2014

All they've gotta do is show their cell records where five minutes after the janitor left they made about a thousand panicked phone calls to every number they could dial.

If they didn't do something along those lines, they wanted to be locked in there, and I'm guessing it wasn't to get some peace for a nap.

Dustlawyer

(10,493 posts)
10. I know, right! There is a guy, last name is Spoonamore
Fri Jun 6, 2014, 04:21 PM
Jun 2014

or Spoonmoore that is one of the designers of the credit card protection system that has posted a few videos explaining how a "King computer" was used to change votes from Kerry to Bush in Ohio. This was the time they caught a TN., company and were going to depose Rove's IT guy who was killed in a mysterious small plane crash days before testifying. He goes on to say that our system is virtually unprotected and explains why. Very interesting stuff, especially the fact that neither party is trying to do anything about it.

lark

(22,995 posts)
8. So sick and tired of the RW hypocricy and double standards.
Fri Jun 6, 2014, 02:18 PM
Jun 2014

You can bet that if it were Democratic operatives, they'd be held under the jail and Faux Snooze would be trumpeting the news that Democrats are trying to steal an election.

Brother Buzz

(36,212 posts)
14. I'm thinking Forrest Gump
Fri Jun 6, 2014, 10:28 PM
Jun 2014

"Yeah, sir, you might want to send a maintenance man over to that office across the way. The lights are off, and they must be looking for a fuse box, 'cause them flashlights, they keep me awake. "

LiberalFighter

(50,477 posts)
17. The alarm system goes off whenever the vault is opened?
Sat Jun 7, 2014, 10:08 AM
Jun 2014
"It would be very hard for anyone to get into my vault," Dunn told the paper. "And I have an alarm system that is turned on that would make a loud sound if anyone opens the vault."

It goes off every time that the vault is opened? So they couldn't have turned off the alarm system before opening it?

"There is a ballot accounting form that is to be filled out by a person from each polling location. It has a slot for them to put the number of unused ballots. So, there are checks and balances for the ballots. The supply bags were not examined Tuesday night. But there is a record of how many were unused," Cochran told us via email late on Thursday.

What other ways could they have tampered with the votes?

LiberalFighter

(50,477 posts)
18. Really? They broke no laws?
Sat Jun 7, 2014, 10:10 AM
Jun 2014
The details of the story, and why the three --- one a top campaign official for McDaniel (and a former Presidential campaign staffer for Newt Gingrich) --- were there at all, remain murky. On Wednesday, the Hinds County Sheriff's office said that there were "conflicting stories from the three of them." But by Thursday evening, despite what a Sheriff's spokesman described as a "fabrication" from the President of the Central Mississippi Tea Party who contacted a fellow Hinds County Republican executive committee member to seek his help in getting out of the courthouse, the county decided that she and the two men caught in the courthouse caper along with her broke no laws.


Weren't they illegally in the building?
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