From: Craig Slay

To: mail@lawlives.com
Subject: RE: Chris McDaniel v. Becky Boyd; Rankin County Circuit Court
Date: Thursday, J uly 17, 2014 2:24:59 PM
Let me be 100% clear. Neither you nor anyone associated with the McDaniel campaign (or any other
campaign for that matter) will intentionally see any voter dates of birth listed in any Rankin County,
Mississippi poll books without an order from the Mississippi Supreme Court allowing it. There will
be no further discussion about this. If your client intends to come to Rankin County and continue to
make demand to see ANY DOBs in our poll books for any reason at all, we have nothing else to
discuss.

Concerning the suggestion of your clients review of the original poll books with the DOBs shielded
from view, be advised that pursuant to the Rankin County Access to Public Record Policy, a copy of
which I have already provided to you, the campaign will be required to prepay (my clerk will
estimate the time required) $20 per hour for each Rankin County Circuit Clerks office employee or
staffer that is forced to be present during any viewing of the original poll books in order to shield
the DOBs. To the extent that the campaign wants copies of the poll book pages, in whole or in part,
the campaign will be required to prepay both the required per page photocopy charge of 25 cents
per page plus a $20 per hour staff time fee for the copying service. This prepayment requirement is
being mandated because of how your client handled the situation in Harrison County. After the
order was entered in the circuit court case, the Harrison County Circuit Clerks staff began redacting
the DOBs, after hours, and your client failed to pay for the redaction services and instead took up
the appeal to the Supreme Court. That will not happen in Rankin County. Payment will be made in
advance before poll books are viewed. The taxpayers of Rankin County will not be forced to absorb
the very real costs associated with this review process on my clerks office.

In order to get this resolved, I need a commitment in writing on campaign letterhead signed by an
authorized representative of the campaign binding the campaign to the commitment as spelled out
herein. That commitment letter must also contain a statement repeating verbatim: The Chris
McDaniel Campaign will not request that the Rankin County Circuit Clerk allow its authorized
representatives to view dates of birth for voters listed in the Rankin County Poll Books, nor will the
campaign seek to intentionally view voter date of birth information contained within the original
Rankin County poll books. I will require the written commitment in hand before scheduling of any
review is attempted.

I may have more conditions that I will relay to you in short order, but I think I have covered the vast
majority of the preconditions.

I await your clients reply.



From: mail@lawlives.com [mailto:mail@lawlives.com]
Sent: Thursday, J uly 17, 2014 1:45 PM
To: Craig Slay
Subject: RE: Chris McDaniel v. Becky Boyd; Rankin County Circuit Court
E-Filed Document Jul 18 2014 19:10:38 2014-M-00967 Pages: 2
Exhibit B

We are considering the options. We may be able to work out an agreement if you can tell me
whether Becky will agree to let us examine the original documents. We are not concerned
about birth dates, except in a rare case that we can probably work around. I have to check our
Rankin County records but here is generally what we encounter: if a poll worker wrote
Voted in the J une 3 column, or wrote Voted in the J une 24 column, and there is any other
marks or notations on those pages used in those respective elections that raise uncertainty
about the marks on the pages (indicating whether a voter did or did not vote in both), then a
copy destroys the ability to examine the original markings. Additionally, a clerk could lay a
paper over the birth date column of the originals to protect it from view as the originals are
examined.


Steve C. Thornton
Attorney at Law
Post Office Box 16465
Jackson, Mississippi 39236
Telephone: 601-982-0313
Facsimile: 601-957-6554
email: mail@lawlives.com





From: Craig Slay [mailto:cslay@rankincounty.org]
Sent: Thursday, J uly 17, 2014 1:11 PM
To: mail@lawlives.com
Subject: Chris McDaniel v. Becky Boyd; Rankin County Circuit Court

Now that the attached Order has been handed down from the Supremes, are yall still intending to
pursue mandamus in this Rankin County case? My Circuit Clerk is on a trip with her grandchildren
and I would like to know whether I have to tell her to return to Rankin County by Monday for this
hearing. Please afford the courtesy of a quick reply so I can help my clerk with her travel
arrangements.

Craig L. Slay
Attorney
Rankin County Board of Supervisors

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