Analysis: Even MS Voting 'Irregularities' Are Too Few To Contest Runoff Results

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DANIEL STRAUSS – JULY 8, 2014, 1:00 PM EDT

An analysis by Mississippi's Clarion Ledger suggests that state Sen. Chris McDaniel (R-MS) may not have found enough evidence to overturn the results of the runoff election in which he lost the runoff primary to incumbent Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS).

The analysis on Tuesday followed Cochran's campaign releasing its own tally of votes that seem to be invalid in the runoff. A day earlier McDaniel's lawyer, Mitch Tyner, said that the McDaniel campaign and McDaniel supporters had found thousands of irregular ballots and projected that they would find enough invalid ballots to close the margin by which Cochran beat McDaniel in the runoff.

Austin Barbour, a top adviser for Cochran's re-election campaign, released its own tallies of questionable ballots, through the campaign's own county-by-county search.

"As you will see, the numbers contained in this review are drastically lower than the wild claims made by the McDaniel campaign," Barbour (pictured) said.

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