David Ware has roughly a thousand vote over Johnny Dupree with one box to go. Then the box comes in very late.... I'll let the Hattiesburg American tell the story:
The final ballot box to be counted in Hattiesburg’s mayoral election, and the one that has served as the cornerstone for Mayor Johnny DuPree’s successful runs for the office, arrived at City Hall five hours after polls closed Tuesday, padlocked, but without a required seal.
The box from Rowan precinct, which voted 91.4 percent for Dupree in his race against challenger Dave Ware, did not make its way to downtown Hattiesburg until midnight, and when it got there, it was not tagged with a seal as state law stipulates.
“I don’t know if they ran out of them there, but it did not have a seal,” Ward 4 Election Commissioner Turner Jones said Wednesday morning. “It had a padlock on it, but it didn’t have the seal.”
That seal, which acts as an anti-tampering device, was attached after the box finally arrived from a precinct with a history of not only being one of the city’s largest, but also one of the last to close shop and transport the ballots to be counted. Article
Ware's lead shrunk to 32 votes after Rowan was counted. Just like the good ole days in New Orleans.
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The fix is in.
Dave Ware may be too tired to fight this again. I hope he won't give Dupree that satisfaction.
You guys are something else. There are a gazillion federal and state monitors watching every move in Hattiesburg in the election yesterday, and you still delusionally accuse Mayor Dupree, who is currently behind in the race, of stealing the election. Whichever candidate wins, that person will be the legimately elected Mayor of Hattiesburg. I'll be the first to say that if Mr. Ware wins.
And nobody knows what the final vote count will be.
10:16 Moron. Not having the seal on the ballot box violates state law. Why didn't any of your "gazillion" monitors notice that?
It might be a reason to force a third election.
The law is very simple. No seal on the box; therefore, not a valid box .
I can't wait to see how this ends.
Pete Perry, talk to us
Notice that 10:16 doesn't deny that the Rowan box was not sealed.
10:16's spin is almost verbatim the same coming out of the Eichelcottonburger camp.
Which means that the Waterboy and Precious know that an unsealed box is a big, big deal.
Was dear old "EDDIE MYERS" hanging around that precinct????? Where oh where has Eddie been now???
What a shocker: The Repubs. want to disenfranchise a large group of citizens by throwing out a whole padlocked box of votes based upon a technicality, the "seal" issue. And it's purely coincidence that 90+ percent of those votes went for Mayor Dupree. If it was the other way around and 90+ percent of the votes were for Mr. Ware, we wouldn't hear a peep about a seal.
Note to Repub. True Believers who frequent the comments: My prediction is that every one of the votes in the padlocked but allegedly unsealed box will be counted. The law does not favor disenfranchising a large group of citizens over a technicality. Of course, this doesn't mean that Mayor Dupree will win the election again. The winner is of yet undetermined, though Mr. Ware leads currently.
Will this box be counted??
What does the law say?
It's a violation of law to break the utility seal on your electric meter. It's a violation of law to not seal a ballot box whether or not padlocked. Stupidity and ignorance have consequences (sometimes).
How odd that Tom Head is posting the same message as 7:18 AM elsewhere on the net. Wouldn't be the first time Head wanted to disregard the law for convenience sake.
There's just no excuse for getting it that wrong TWICE.
Why did the box not arrive until midnight, five hours after the polls closed? Is traffic that bad in Hattiesburg?
and it's purely coincidence that the box from this same precinct continually has a seal missing and is late arriving each time....
and it's sad that Tom Head accuses Democrats of not caring about the sanctity of elections and that only Republican care about having valid, true elections. I disagree with him. I believe most want valid elections, and only want to disregard the safeguards when it benefits their donkey
Dupree needed it at the very end in order to determine how many votes he needed in the last box based on the results tabulated from the others.
NOW you see why Lt. Robert Graham of the Jackson Police Department and Stokes want vote "counting" to take place in the precincts.
9:41 hit the nail RIGHT on the head!
I like Delbert, but since he had pictures of himself standing around in Hattiesburg all day monitoring the election, how come he wasn't standing around the "Rowan" box, since it is a known problem. And how come he didn't roll the troops when it was one hour late? Two hours late? Three? etc.
I'm a Ware supporter....That is, I'd vote for him if I lived in Hattiesburg.
That said, the missing seal thing was not as ominous as it sounds. SOS office and DOJ were with the box the whole time according to a newer story from HA. What at first smelled fishy turns out to be turnips cooking instead.
Thank you, Ware supporter, for throwing water on the hysteria some folks on here want to start over some technicality. What's weird is that they're already wailing about "the fix's being in," Mr. Ware better file suit again, blah blah, and Mr. Ware could easily keep his lead and win the race.
Whoever wins, he won fair and square, notwithstanding any bogus conspiracy theories conjured up by anonymous coomenters on JJ. And whoever Tom Head is, I'm not him, not Donna Ladd, not one of her cronies, nor am I any of the other people I'm always accused of being on here.
Pamela Weaver, who used to be a reporter from WDAM if I am not mistaken, and who is now Dilbert Hosemans Communications Director was the rep from the state at the SOS office. I am almost 99.9% sure she is not an atty, so how can she be qualified to observe for the SOS?
SEC. 23-15-247. Ballot boxes.
The commissioners of election in each county shall procure, if not already provided, a sufficient number of ballot boxes, which shall be distributed by them to the voting precincts of the county before the time for opening the polls. The boxes shall be secured by good and substantial locks, and, if an adjournment shall take place after the opening of the polls and before all the votes shall be counted, the box shall be securely locked, so as to prevent the admission of anything into it, or the taking of anything from it, during the time of adjournment; and the box shall be kept by one of the managers and the key by another of the managers, and the manager having the box shall carefully keep it, and neither unlock or open it himself nor permit it to be done, nor permit any person to have any access to it during the time of adjournment. The box shall not be removed from the polling building or place after the polls are opened until the count is complete, if as many as three (3) qualified electors object. After each election the ballot boxes shall be delivered, with the keys thereof, to the clerk of the circuit court of the county for preservation; and he shall keep them for future use, and, when called for, deliver them to the commissioners of election.
Sending someone to ride in a separate car from the ballot box is not “accompanying” anything; nor is it securing the integrity of the election. Why didn’t Mrs. Easton simply take a seal to the precinct, record the number, and put it on the ballot box before it left the building? Why did Turner Jones make misleading statements, or was he misinformed? This incident raises more questions than it answers and none are comforting for many citizens of Hatteisburg.
And whoever Tom Head is, I'm not him, not Donna Ladd, not one of her cronies, nor am I any of the other people I'm always accused of being on here.
And I'm not you ... Thank God.
It is the Cottonmouth losers posting here and Tom Head.
Read their Twitter feeds. Verbatim what they are posting on JJ.
So if it isn't Eichelwanker himself it is one of 3 other people.
The Cottondonkeycult does everything but come right out and say the Rowan box is 100% per the letter of the law. They can't because they know there is a problem. Thus the spin and gymnastics.
If the box without the seal was one of the Ware strongholds they'd be hollering at the top of their lungs that the box violates the law.
Morons, locks have keys, and boxes go into cars to be driven to courthouse. this is why a seal is vital. seals cannot be unlocked, but only broken.
Chump Eichelwanker just outed himself. But what he didn't reveal is that he is also attached at the hip to Brandon Jones. JJ readers in Hattiesburg be sure to take note. The same Brandon Jones who is Dupree's attorney and who assaulted the proprietor of the Hattiesburg Patriot on Tuesday night.
@11:04 AM. BRAVO for posting the code.
Following this is absolutely dumbfounding.
https://twitter.com/search?q=%23haelex&src=hash&f=realtime
It's simple - THROW OUT THE BOX WITH NO SEAL!!!! It's not ROCKET SCIENCE!!!!
From WDAM twitter:
Mike McDaniel @McDanielWDAM 4h
...she says she was in another car while the poll manager and another worker were in the car with the box... and the key #wdam #haelex
Key and the box in the same car with no seal. I say toss the whole box out.
http://www.mscode.com/free/statutes/23/015/0593.htm
Read it and weep, Ware supporters. The statute isn't as black and white (HA!) as everyone seems to think. Very subjective, and you can bet that the subjectivity will be used to favor the incumbent. As we have painfully learned in the last several years, no one wants to be called a racist.
To everyone attributing the missing seal to malice - tomorrow contact your election commissioner to perform the civic duty of being trained and working the polls. You'll all do that, right?
Well 9:22 PM, apparently someone needs too because they have had 2 shots at this and still can't get it right.
Kingfish, have you seen this? http://youtu.be/4eOuvD6InAk
Following tweets on H’burg
“Election Commission rules to accept all the challenged ballots at the Train Depot.”
“Election Commission then rules that no ballots can be challenged by Ware camp on future precinct boxes”
“that was a big blow for the Ware camp. There may have been over 50 challenged ballots at Train Depot”
Mayor Dupree now leads Mr. Ware by 118 votes. The counting of absentee votes will resume tomorrow. That's a big margin for Mr. Ware to overcome this late in the game. Anything can happen, but it appears to me likely that Mayor Dupree has beaten him again. Maybe now after losing again, Mr. Ware will accept reality and stop filing lawsuits to overturn elections.
Now in full victim mode comes the hypocrisy of the Eichelegotron on behalf of himself, the temper tantrum Waterboy and their stable of irked Donkeycrats.
Po' wittle Matty deplores the "very public brutalization" of Hattiesburg Mayor II and that this heinousness "will make it nigh impossible for whomever wins to govern".
The Democratic Thrust "Communication Director" then heaves an outcry about a weaponized Twitter as "the main tool of this assault" and summarily convicts "the Hattiesburg media" as "AT LEAST an accessory to the crime".
No regular reader here will be surprised then that Fraudberger avoids the mention that not only is he Dupree lawyer Brandon Jones' virtual donkey twin but that he was himself a brutalizer via Twitter anonymously behind the Cottonkiddieclub account (until being exposed on JJ) while depositing the exact same droppings in paragraph form here -- anonymously of course -- on JJ.
Dumb and dumber Donkeycrats.
Hey Fat, I'm sure you'll be the first Repub. to congratulate Mayor Dupree for beating your man twice now, IF the Mayor's 118 vote lead holds. The parts of your comments that are even intelligible are not only misguided but are irrelevant to the fact that your man may get thumped again.
The only person whining here is you. And Fat, there are no victims here, only grown men running against each other for Mayor and that includes your candidate(although one might say that your man is a "victim" of getting his ass beat twice now).
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