One of the key players in the Mississippi election-night courthouse caper told TPM that the stories offered by those found in the locked building with primary ballots in the wee hours of the morning haven't been matching up.
Pete Perry, Hinds County Republican executive chairman and a supporter of Sen. Thad Cochran, relayed the new details to TPM on the explanations being given by Janis Lane, a supporter of Cochran primary opponent Chris McDaniel, who found herself locked in the Hinds County courthouse at 2 a.m. on Election Night and called Perry for help.
Perry spoke with a Hinds County sheriff deputy Wednesday, Perry told TPM, who asked him what happened. Perry said that Lane had called him at about 2 a.m. Wednesday morning and said she was locked in the courthouse. Lane had told him that she had come with a female friend to observe the electoral process, Perry said.
As TPM reported Wednesday, Perry then contacted a sheriff deputy and Lane was let out of the courthouse some time after 3 a.m. Connie Cochran, sister-in-law to Thad Cochran and a county election commissioner, had told TPM that she was the last official to leave the courthouse at 11:30 p.m. Tuesday.
But Lane's story to Perry doesn't match the known facts. The Clarion-Ledger reported Wednesday that Lane was found at the courthouse with two men: Scott Brewster, a McDaniel campaign official, and Rob Chambers, a Christian activist who supports McDaniel.
Well that's interesting. Having supporters of McDaniel locked in a building where the ballots are stored seems a tad suspicious.
And just who is this Scott Brewster guy again?
Courtesy of the Clarion-Ledger:
Brewster is a former coordinator of presidential candidate Newt Gingrich's Mississippi operation and is currently McDaniel's campaign coalition coordinator.
Ooh, well that is troubling.
But hey their story is that a they were directed to an unlocked door by "uniform personnel" and then got locked in, after the last person there did a sweep and locked the building behind them.
Coulda happened to anyone.
Wait, TPM has more:
"It's a fabrication that someone pointed them to a door," Hinds County Sheriff's Department spokesman Othor Cain told the Clarion-Ledger. "I think that's a total misrepresentation of fact. None of our guys let anybody in."
The McDaniel campaign refused to comment on the Hinds County Sheriff's office's latest statement.
Oh....well now that IS a little tougher to explain.
You know with this kind of cloak and dagger stuff going on that you-know-who was not involved in some way.
Well you know what they say, if it walks like a duck, and it quacks like a duck, and it got endorsed by Sarah Palin, it's guilty as fuck.
Hmmmm.....Watergate all over again, only on a smaller, dumber scale :)
ReplyDeleteThey look like they're going to the AARP prom.
ReplyDeleteDon't all public buildings have doors that you can open from the inside even if they're locked? I can't imagine, for safety purposes, not having emergency exits that are always accessible.
ReplyDeleteUnless, of course, they were hiding in an interior room that wasn't supposed to be open to the public.
Maybe Mississippi doesn't do regulations.
Delete"Well you know what they say, if it walks like a duck, and it quacks like a duck, and it got endorsed by Sarah Palin, it guilty as fuck."
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There's no good explanation for why the McDaniels supporter and campaign staff were in the building. The sheriff has declined to prosecute the trespass violation but I can't fathom why Cochran isn't demanding a recount of Hinds County votes.
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ReplyDeleteOoooh..oww! What the hell is in my shoe? Oh, lookie here! 2000 uncounted ballots, who'da thunk it? ;)
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Thanks. That made me laugh.
DeleteThe inconsistencies and lies of the three amigos locked in the courthouse are hilarious. First, the last of the election staff left at 11:30 pm. Why the heck aren't these three tucked in bed at that hour? What would they be doing in a locked-up building (with ballots) alone, at 2:00 in the am? Why did this Ms. Lane call up a Cochran supporter, asking for help? Why didn't she call police? Everything about this story says 'sabotage'.
ReplyDeletePerfect Photo! I remember my prom. I got a beautiful white rose and forget me not wrist coursage, a dozen roses and I wore this knock em dead white and blue gown. My how times have changed. The sea hag is dressed in a see through mourning number and has what looks like a houseplant growing out of her armpit.
ReplyDeleteBut I digress. This fiasco in hind county needs to be investigaged fully. Our forefathers didn't write the constitution so people could handle vote counting willy nilly behind locked doors. Hind County Palooza!!!!!
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In the next segment, correspondents Jordan Klepper and Michael Che provided some helpful Do’s and Don’ts of gun safety. Klepper said that you should be careful with your gun when you bring it to a restaurant. Che said, “And when you bring your gun to a restaurant, DON’T be black.”
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If the building was closed at 11:30pm, what did the three stooges do until 2am? Didn't they realize that there was nobody else there, and that all the ballots supposedly had been counted and locked away?
ReplyDeleteIt took them 2 1/2 hours to realize that?!
Yeah, and I have a bridge to nowhere to sell to ya! (Ooops, my bad - that one already has been sold...)
It took two and a half hours to change enough ballots for McDaniel. It was only after they were finished, they realized they were locked in.
DeleteIf it's voter fraud, it's Republicans. You can count on it. What a bunch of maroons. Also, too, that black bra showing through the transparent dress in the picture above...how tacky.
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Why Was Miss. Tea Partier In Locked Courthouse With Ballots On Election Night?
6/4/2014 15:58 PM EST
A Mississippi tea party official with close ties to U.S. Senate candidate Chris McDaniel apparently ended up inside a locked and empty county courthouse late Tuesday night after primary election results had come in.
Hinds County Republican executive chairman Pete Perry told TPM that he received a phone call around 2:00 a.m. CT on Wednesday from Janis Lane, president of the Central Mississippi Tea Party, who said she was locked inside the Hinds County courthouse. That would be where the circuit clerk and election commission offices, and the primary election ballots, are located.
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Before closing on election night, there were still 4 boxes for Hinds County uncounted. I'm unsure if ballots which were absentee, those with affidavits, or those contested had been counted yet.
From election commission (on election night):
4 Hinds County boxes won't be counted until in the morning. Clinton 2, Learned, Precinct 56 (Fire Station on Livingston Road), Chapel Hill.
Also, there were still 16 pretty big boxes out from Rankin County very late that were still out when 98% -99% had been reported.
RANKIN
16 boxes out. Castlewoods, Castlewoods West, Liberty Baptist, Reservoir East, Northshore, Oakdale are some of those outstanding. Big boxes.
The Rankin ballots were supposed to be counted Tuesday night. I don't know if they were processed Tuesday evening very late or if they were delayed until Wednesday morning also. I stayed up until the live-bloggers quit blogging at around midnight, and the commissioner said they all left the Hinds County Courthouse (in Jackson, the county seat of Hinds Co. And the Capital of MS) by 11:30 pm. By mid-morning on Wednesday, all the primary ballot numbers had been updated, but it was hard to determine exactly which and how many votes were actually counted Wednesday morning. Absentee ballots and provisional ballots w/affadavits are reviewed seperately, but not counted & totalled seperately.
I hope all of the provisional and absentee ballots were kept secure in a safe, and not just in a locked room that could be compromised by those who would commit crimes just to win an election. I'm also hopeful there will be a serious investigation of this matter immediately.
Either way, there will be three more weeks of dirty politics to go. There is a good, experienced Democratic candidate, Travis Childers, but the Democratic electorate is just not there to make it happen. He will need crossover GOP votes to win. It's a remote chance, but in my opinion, it is most likely to happen if McDaniel wins and alienates the "GOP establishment". From . A practical economic standpoint, MS stands to risk a lot of Federal Funds if the Tea Party steals this one, as the state gets $3 in Federal money from every $1 of Fedtax collected from MS and sent to Washington.
McDaniel staffers locked in the same building with the ballots.
ReplyDeleteMcDaniel wins primary.
This is the election fraud the GOP has been screaming about. But it has nothing to do with voters. It has to do with their own campaigns.
Well, I hope all the McDaniel staff had their proper voter IDs on them when they were rigging that election.
Why would they call at 2 AM to report they had been locked in a building? Why would they be there so late to begin with? Why was no one there guarding the ballots? It would have been better to just wait until the place opened the next day and blend in. Maybe there are security cameras in the hallway and someone had to pee. When conducting voter fraud in the courthouse they should always wear adult diapers. They don't really believe in Democracy, but think they should have their way at the cost of others. That sounds like toddler size diapers rather than adult size.
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