is trying to give Florida Man a run for his money.

I am so glad I don't live in the deep south anymore.

A Mississippi sheriff's department is investigating why three people, including a tea party officer and two others representing the challenger in a Senate primary, were found locked in the Hinds County Courthouse in Jackson, Miss., hours after election officials had closed the building and gone home from counting votes early Wednesday morning.

Hinds County Sheriff's Department spokesman Othor Cain said investigators are trying to figure out how Janis Lane, Scott Brewster and Rob Chambers entered the courthouse. They were inside until about 3:45 a.m., Cain said.

Brewster is a former coordinator of presidential candidate Newt Gingrich's Mississippi operation and is currently State Senator Chris McDaniel's campaign coalition coordinator.

McDaniel is trying to unseat six-term Republican Sen. Thad Cochran.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2014/06/05/tea-party-trapped-courthouse/9999005/

When did they realize they were locked in?
Whom did they call by telephone to come and save them?
Why did they go there?
What did they do inside there all the time?

What I find hard to believe is that if they were there - obviously up to no good, why not open a window and escape -- then close it as much as possible from the outside. Not to mention, it seems an enormous fire safety problem that doors can't be opened from the inside.

Something doesn't ring true on this.

How many ballots did they touch.

The perps have to get their grubby paws on them. I hope they left fingerprints.

to prevent this kind of fraud.