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Mississippi Democrat David Archie says there was voter fraud in a recent primary election that was carried out by Democratic county chairperson Jacqueline Amos.
Archie is challenging the results of the election on August 8th, claiming it was a “high-tech election heist with corruption as well as fraud.”
As the Hinds County District 2 Supervisor, Archie lost to Anthony Smith.
Hinds County election officials say Smith won by 63% of the vote. Smith reportedly won by nearly 1,900 votes.
Archie requested a ballot box review of the election results.
The Hinds County Democratic Party provided him with the paper ballots, but not the secondary confirmation measures, such as a voter signature book, digital images of the ballots, or the thumb drives from the voting machines.
Archie says Hinds County Democratic Executive Committee chairperson Jacqueline Amos is behind the corruption.
He alleges that Amos sent a text message that read, “Hey, don’t let them cheat Debroha Dixon out of her election. She won fair and square.”
“She won. But I’m going to f— David Archie on the site!!!” she alleged wrote in the text.
“The bottom line is that we have the text, she’s the chairperson, she’s the one that’s responsible,” Archie said at a press conference.
“She must be impartial to any and all elections here in Hinds County and this does not speak that she was being impartial to an election.”
“We have videotape of Jacque Amos going into boxes, bringing in thumb drives, bringing in ballots to be inserted into machines. We have pictures of Jacque Amos participating in what we think that is fraud as well as corruption,” he added.
Resident Taylor Pedigo agreed that there was election fraud.
“I was watching the election numbers come in and immediately I knew that something funny was going on, that this man that I had never heard of, that I had never seen a yard sign of… came out the gate with a huge lead. This leads me to believe that this needs further investigation,” Pedigo said.
Resident Cynthia Walker said, “I have reason to believe that we don’t know if you got 1,800 voters.”
“All we know is you got 1,800 paper ballots. Had she left me some books, and I came back to 1,800, had she left me some media sticks, and I came back to 1800, had she left me a tally sheet,” Walker continued.
“I came back to 1,800. Had they left us a receiving and a receipt in return form, we could come back to some serial numbers. Had they filled out the ballot accounting form, I could go back to 1,800. I can’t go anywhere but count those paper ballots. That does not tell us anything.”