MS Ballot (Approved By GOP & Gov Barbour) BURIES Senate race

[kpete]

Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann today presented an unlawful sample ballot which buries the special US Senate race between Governor Ronnie Musgrove and interim US Senator Roger Wicker. The ballot was approved by Governor Haley Barbour.

Hosemann buried the Musgrove-Wicker race below all local races near the bottom of the ballot.

Hosemann could cite no statue supporting his decision to move the race from the top of the ballot. However, Attorney General Jim Hood did cite election law requiring federal races be placed at the top of the ballot.

"We will win this election no matter where the Secretary of State puts it on the ballot," Tim Phillips, Musgrove for Senate campaign manager said. "But this is about the law and they don’t get to make up their own laws."

The unlawful ballot is expected to cause confusion for voters expecting to find the Musgrove-Wicker race with other federal elections where it belongs. The most prominent election in the state will be one of the hardest races to find on Election Day.

Mississippi election law, code 23-15-367, clearly states federal races, like the Musgrove-Wicker race, belong on the top of the ballot.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/9/9/131445/2949/653/592276

[mikelgb]

1. where are all those fucking lawyers I read about?

vote fraud

[diva77]

2. you mean ELECTION fraud!!!

[mikelgb]

4. I like to use their stupid term back against them

[barbtries]

3. they must not ever sleep

they stay up all night every night thinking up any and all ways to make sure the democrats lose. to hell with allowing the people to decide! they make me SOOO sick.

i mean this tactic is frankly one i would have never hit upon. maybe the answer is within that small fact: democrats want to win fairly, based on free and fair elections, one person, one vote, all to be counted. we don't even THINK about these lowball tactics, let alone institute them.

is there time to make the ballot conform to the law?

[L. Coyote]

6. Maybe they outsource some of this to Asia, so they can get some sleep

while it is worked on non-stop, on the cheap. :rofl:

[tbyg52]

5. Sound kinda desperate, don't they....? nt