McDaniel has 4,900 illegal votes and expect 6,700 by tonight

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From an initial review of the ballots, McDaniel’s campaign said last week they had found at least 4,900 voting irregularities.

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"We don't have to have 6,700 [to move forward with a legal challenge], however, I would be surprised if we don't find 6,700," Tyner said. "If there are that many ineligible voters then it's already an automatically a new election."

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Tyner said they wouldn’t know the results of the full review until later Monday night, but they planned to file a challenge to the election results first with the Mississippi Republican Party and then, 10 days later, in court. He added that the campaign doesn't believe it needs to find more illegitimate votes than Cochran's lead to launch a legal challenge.

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Cochran’s campaign fanned out across the state as well, dispatching representatives to all 82 courthouses to oversee the review of ballot boxes. Jordan Russell, Cochran’s spokesman, said the campaign has “been pleased with the results.”

“The county by county results reported thus far are revealing an extremely low number of crossover votes from the June 24th election. As the process moves forward, the conversation is shifting from wild, baseless accusations to hard facts,” said Russell. “As we have said from the beginning, the run-off results are clear: the majority of Mississippians voted for Senator Thad Cochran.”

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