MS-3: Republican Voting Shenanigans

Apparently the leading candidate in District 3, David Landrum, was taken off the voter rolls (I think, please clarify in the comments).

A voter purge that affects the powerful? You know there's going to be a lawsuit.

The Sun Herald Reports On Republican Perry's Meddling in South Mississippi

Our Original Post On The Possible Challenge

A prominent Republican has been on the coast helping Democratic state Sen. Scottie Cuevas prepare for a possible challenge of a primary in which Cuevas' opponent was declared the winner by 36 votes.
The actions by Hinds County GOP chairman Pete Perry demonstrate the importance to Gov. Haley Barbour of holding onto an ally in the 52-member state Senate, where Republicans hold a slim majority and often rely on Cuevas and other conservative Democrats to push the Republican governor's agenda.

Cuevas said Thursday that he "most probably" will challenge the primary results.

"That's what we're looking at," Cuevas said. "It's nothing we just want to run in and say, 'Hey, we're filing a challenge.' We want to make sure we have our ducks in a row."

Baria said he thinks it's unusual for Cuevas to have chosen Perry to help re-examine ballot boxes. Pete Perry was in charge of the Hinds County Republican primary on Aug. 7, and there were complaints about the GOP not having people to work in some precincts early that day.

"It seems very ironic that he's down here criticizing the election that our local election officials ran," Baria said of Pete Perry.

The Sun Herald Article

Republican Pete Perry Examines DEMOCRATIC Primary In HANCOCK County?

Look who's surfaced in Hancock County -- Pete Perry the Hinds County Republican Chair who had to defend his complete failure as an elections official in the August 7 primary on every news outlet in Central Mississippi. What's he doing in Hancock? He is examining the ballot boxes in the DEMOCRATIC primary where David Baria beat Scottie Cuevas by about 30 votes.

That's right -- the father of Haley Barbour's policy director Jim Perry is down on the Coast representing a Democratic candidate!

It definitely looks like the Barbour machine had different plans for Senate District 46. Rumors were that Cuevas had promised a party switch to match his voting patterns after he won. Only he didn't win. Now Barbour has sent one of his henchmen down there to screw things up as bad as he did in Hinds County.

Word from the Coast is that nothing untoward has been found, although Perry has behaved badly.

David Baria is a fine, smart and strong man who conducted an honorable campaign. It's no wonder that Barbour and friends don't want him in the Senate and will pull every hat trick they can to keep him away from the capitol.