UPDATED: Miss. GOP certifies Cochran victory over McDaniel

[DonViejo]

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Source: ASSOCIATED PRESS

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The Mississippi Republican Party says U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran won the state’s Republican primary runoff over challenger Chris McDaniel by 7,667 votes. The party sent results to the Secretary of State on Monday, the legal deadline.

The GOP’s numbers showed Cochran winning by more than the 6,800 votes counted by The Associated Press after the June election. Tallies change as county parties examine provisional ballots and finalize results.

McDaniel, a state senator, has said he would challenge the results. But his attorney Mitch Tyner says it could be days before that happens.

Tyner says the campaign must first finish its investigation into how many voters improperly cast absentee ballots or who voted in both the Democratic primary and GOP runoff, a violation of state law.

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Read more: http://www.salon.com/2014/07/08/miss_gop_certifies_cochran_victory_over_mcdaniel/

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McDaniel's Lawyer: We've Found 'Thousands' Of Ineligible Voters

DANIEL STRAUSS – JULY 7, 2014, 4:32 PM EDT

State Sen. Chris McDaniel's (R) lawyer said McDaniel's campaign and supporters have found "thousands" of examples of ineligible voters who cast their vote for Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) in the runoff election for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate.

"I know there are several thousand that are absolute, ineligible voters," McDaniel attorney Mitch Tyner (pictured) said at a press conference on Monday. "And every one of those — every one of those is going to dilute your vote, it's going to dilute your vote."

Tyner's comments come as McDaniel supporters pore over poll books in counties that went for Cochran, who McDaniel challenged, in the Republican primary for U.S. Senate. Cochran ended up winning the election and McDaniel and his supporters have since accused the incumbent senator of causing voter fraud.

One reporter at the press conference asked Tyner if he could specify what the McDaniel campaign and McDaniel's attorney found by going through the absentee ballots on Monday. Tyner declined but said he would have more on that later in the week.

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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/chris-mcdaniel-mitch-tyner-thad-cochran-thousands-voters-runoff

[yeoman6987]

1. Rut row

Now what is McConfusion going to do?????????

[DonViejo]

6. HA! Read the update...

it was inevitable.

[chillfactor]

2. give it up already McDaniel...

you are nothing more than burnt toast.......

[rurallib]

3. no, no, no keep fighting right up to Christmas

longer if you need. It your victory and it was stolen. Get nasty, McDaniel. Point out all of Cochrane's faults and fuck ups! Keep him busy so he can't run an effective campaign. That will show him!

[HooptieWagon]

5. Exactly! McDaniel was screwed.

He needs to file several lawsuits against Cochran and the Miss GOP. Talk to the press about how evil the GOP is. Don't give up! Keep fighting till Nov!

[blkmusclmachine]

4. Suck it, teabaggers!

[xfundy]

7. Run third party!

That'll show 'em.

[groundloop]

8. Miss GOP .... what, they've got a beauty pageant now???

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

11. That's exactly what I thought when I saw the headline n/t

[savalez]

9. But but but

he saw Black people voting!!!!!!! So there must've been voter fraud!

McDaniel is proof that the Repuke party wants nothing to do with minorities. He is the worst of the worst.

[defacto7]

10. "I know there are several thousand that are absolute,

ineligible voters," McDaniel attorney Mitch Tyner said ...

That's what lawyers are supposed to say. It's not about real.

Keep up the good work guys! hehehe

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

13. And his evidence for this is ...?

[defacto7]

16. I'm quoting from the OP.

and making fun of it.

They are doing the Dems a favor by going at each other.

As for the lawyer comment.... no evidence is necessary when it's a jibe at the law profession. It's an opinion.

[Vinca]

12. So how would McDaniel prove the "ineligible" voters voted for Cochran? Sour grapes loser.

[Omaha Steve]

14. Remember what R's called Gore in 2000?

As the FL recall started, R's called the sitting VP Sore Gore.

OS

[VA_Jill]

15. Keep sucking that pickle, McDaniel!

Maybe it'll improve your disposition……although I doubt it, somehow!

[Brother Buzz]

17. McDaniel, time to launch your write-in campaign