Hoseman Petitions for Voter ID
Voter ID died an ignoble death during the regular 2009 Legislative session when Senate Republicans killed a bill because it included a provision to allow early voting in Mississippi. Now, Mississippi Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann, also a Republican, is attempting to bypass the Legislature to pass voter ID through a referendum vote.
“I’ve been pushing voter I.D. I think people see it as a common sense thing to do and I really think that this initiative is something that will pick up steam in the summer and that we’ll be voting on it a year from now,” Hosemann told WTOK in Meridian.
Fellow Republican Lt. Gov. Phil Bryant has also been a proponent of the bill, which he says will curb voter fraud in the state, despite scant evidence that fraud has occurred.
JFP
5/26/9
Magnolia Tribune
