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September 6, 2012

Cottonmouth – MS Dem Letter to DOJ: GOP Map Artist Pledged to Draw Racially Biased Maps

Cottonmouth – MS Dem Letter to DOJ: GOP Map Artist Pledged to Draw Racially Biased Maps In a letter to the United States Department of Justice’s Voting Section Chief Chris Herren, Jackson attorney Dorsey Carson, the chairman of the Mississippi Democratic Party’s Third Congressional District Executive Committee, recounts that during the 2011 legislative campaign Rep.…
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September 6, 2012

Hosemann says Miss. voter ID law could survive

Hosemann says Miss. voter ID law could survive Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann said a federal court shooting down Texas’ voter ID law doesn’t mean Mississippi’s won’t be approved, eventually. A three-judge federal court panel in Washington ruled last week that Texas’ 2011 voter ID law violates the Voting Rights Act. Texas had appealed the…