AP Analysis: Lack of voter ID law on ballot no surprise

AP Analysis: Lack of voter ID law on ballot no surprise

That a voter identification initiative won’t make it on the 2010 ballot is likely of no surprise to its Republican Party sponsors or Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann, who delivered the message to legislative leaders this past week.

In the 17 years since Mississippi’s initiative law was enacted, only two citizen-sponsored constitutional amendments have made it to the ballot. Both dealt with term limits, and both were soundly defeated.

Of the 30 initiatives sponsored since 1993, only six remain active, including the GOP-backed plan to make voters show ID at the polls.

There have been few legislative efforts to revise the law that spells out how to change the state constitution by gathering signatures on petitions to put proposed amendments on statewide ballots.

AP
9/28/9