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Old 06-27-2014, 03:14 PM
 
Location: Massachusetts & Hilton Head, SC
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There is no evidence anyone voted illegally. Someone posting a Democratic poll book on twitter and facebook isn't evidence. Screaming and stomping voter fraud doesn't make it so.
Smash, the reason he was able to post a Democratic (actually a list of voters who had previously voted in the Dem. primary) poll book is because the poll workers are supposed to use the opposite party's lists so they can check for illegal voters. If there was a Democratic party run off they would have used the Republican list. It makes sense that a Republican was able to see the list.
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Old 06-27-2014, 03:46 PM
 
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Smash, the reason he was able to post a Democratic (actually a list of voters who had previously voted in the Dem. primary) poll book is because the poll workers are supposed to use the opposite party's lists so they can check for illegal voters. If there was a Democratic party run off they would have used the Republican list. It makes sense that a Republican was able to see the list.
Or the poll book could have been used by Democrats at a Democratic polling station for some of their run-offs on June 24th.

It's definitely sketchy that a poll worker took a partial photograph of a page and posted it on-line.

And then offers a questionable explanation of what it is.
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Old 06-27-2014, 03:46 PM
 
Location: the very edge of the continent
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There is no evidence anyone voted illegally. Someone posting a Democratic poll book on twitter and facebook isn't evidence. Screaming and stomping voter fraud doesn't make it so.
Perry could only discount less than 300 of the 800 found by early yesterday as legitimate mistakes. He could not dismiss all of the double Dem votes as mistakes.

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If there were illegal votes, then that is a problem.
There were. And it is a problem.
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Old 06-27-2014, 03:52 PM
 
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Perry could only discount less than 300 of the 800 found by early yesterday as legitimate mistakes. He could not dismiss all of the double Dem votes as mistakes.

There were. And it is a problem.
There are challenged votes at this point. The authorities will review to determine whether they were illegal or not. And since many counties didn't even have 1000 voters in the Democratic primary, McDaniel has a long, long way to go to prove that he deserves another bite at the apple.
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Old 06-27-2014, 03:56 PM
 
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If Hinds County is rife with voter fraund, 500 votes represents about 4% of the total number of votes cast. Statewide, only around 75,000 voted in the Democratic party. And 4% of 75,000 is about 3,000, well short of the number McDaniel needs to invalidate the election. Just sayin'....
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Old 06-27-2014, 04:14 PM
 
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If Hinds County is rife with voter fraund, 500 votes represents about 4% of the total number of votes cast.
They weren't done counting yet. That was just a total at that time.

I know many will squawk at the source, but it states very specific allegations and names names, both R and D, none of which could be published without verifiable poof unless one wants to face a hefty libel lawsuit. Read the whole thing.
Chris McDaniel Rushes to Review Ballots from Tuesday's Election

Anonymous sources are one thing, and journalists frequently go to extreme lengths to protect their sources but must publish any such sourced allegations as "a source states," etc., protecting the source's anonymity. Naming those who've made specific allegations is quite another matter.
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Old 06-27-2014, 04:23 PM
 
Location: Texas
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Or the poll book could have been used by Democrats at a Democratic polling station for some of their run-offs on June 24th.

It's definitely sketchy that a poll worker took a partial photograph of a page and posted it on-line.

And then offers a questionable explanation of what it is.
The entire page is available.
http://s414.photobucket.com/user/drw...fraud.png.html
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Old 06-27-2014, 04:26 PM
 
Location: Chesapeake Bay
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The real question would then be who committed vote fraud.

If the Dem poll books were used to prevent improper voting, who in their right mind would allow the improper vote to take place and then update the Dem poll book reflecting that improper vote in a Republican run-off election?
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Old 06-27-2014, 04:26 PM
 
Location: Massachusetts & Hilton Head, SC
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Or the poll book could have been used by Democrats at a Democratic polling station for some of their run-offs on June 24th.
I don't think that's allowed. They'd have the list of Republican voters and visa versa.
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Old 06-27-2014, 04:38 PM
 
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I don't think that's allowed. They'd have the list of Republican voters and visa versa.
Yes. Switching Poll Books is what is supposed to happen in a primary runoff. The article I just posted has Claude McInnis, Hinds County's Election Coordinator for the Hinds County Democratic Party Executive Committee, alleging that Perry had asked the Dems to not switch Poll Books in the runoff, The Dems stated they refused because they knew it was illegal, but Perry had succeeded doing so in some precincts anyway with the help of Connie Cochran, Sen. Cochran's sister-in-law. She's the Hinds County Election Commissioner.
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