The Mississippi Republican Party chairman, Joe Nosef, says there is too little time to examine all the materials in the party’s contested Senate run-off election and told challenger Chris McDaniel to go court instead, says the Los Angeles Times. Six-term incumbent Thad Cochran, the Republican leader on the Senate Agriculture Committee, defeated McDaniel, a state senator, in the June 24 runoff. McDaniel contends there were thousands of improper votes.
In a letter to McDaniel’s lawyer, Nosef said, “Given the extraordinary relief requested of overturning a United States Senate primary in which over 360,000 Mississippians cast votes, the only way to ensure the integrity of the election process and provide a prudent review of this matter is in a court of law.” A copy of the letter is available here.