MISSISSIPPI – Sen. Thad Cochran’s (R-Miss.) primary challenger, state Sen. Chris McDaniel, is offering a $1,000 reward in exchange for evidence of voter fraud in his contentious primary fight that leads to an arrest.
The bounty stems from a report from a conservative blogger  [Charles C Johnson] published earlier this week outlining allegations from a self-identified African-American minister that the Cochran team instructed him to pay African-Americans $15 each to vote for Cochran in the runoff.
The pastor said he believed the tactic was widespread and drove thousands of voters to the polls, but he was paid for the interview by a conservative blogger, raising doubts about the legitimacy of his claims.

Cochran’s team has vehemently denied the allegations, but McDaniel is now taking new steps to find further proof.
“We’re offering $1,000 for evidence leading to the arrest and conviction of anyone involved in voter fraud on or leading up to the June 24, 2014, Republican primary runoff election in Mississippi,” a new McDaniel fundraising site reads.
[…]  Under Mississippi election law, residents who voted in one party’s primary are ineligible to vote in another party’s runoff, meaning anyone who voted in the Democratic primary would be ineligible to vote in the GOP runoff. The McDaniel team says it’s found 4,900 “vote irregularities” after poring over the polling books, “the vast majority of which” are those illegitimate crossover votes.
Cochran’s team is unfazed by the allegations, however. Campaign adviser Austin Barbour said at a press conference on Wednesday that he wants to see evidence of the McDaniel campaign’s claims.  (read more)