Prominent Outsider Seeks Rerun Of Mississippi U.S. Senate Primary
(Reuters) - The prominent head of a political action committee has filed a complaint seeking a possible rerun of last month’s Mississippi U.S. Senate Republican primary race, which Tea Party-backed challenger Chris McDaniel lost amid accusations of illegal voting, an attorney said Monday.
The closely contested win by six-term U.S. Senator Thad Cochran, which has split Tea Party and establishment wings of the Republican Party in Mississippi, was certified last week by the state Republican party.
"We are very concerned about the integrity of the election process," said Christina Sirois, a lawyer for Shaun McCutcheon, who filed the complaint with the Mississippi Secretary of State's Office on Friday.
McCutcheon is known as the plaintiff in a landmark case in which the U.S. Supreme Court in April ruled that donors may give money to as many political candidates, parties and committees as they wish.
McCutcheon, who is also chairman of the Conservative Action Fund, a political action committee, asserts in his complaint that the election was tainted by illegal voting by Democrats.
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