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9/19/08
Miss. Gov Agrees to Move Senate Race Up on Ballot

Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour has agreed to move the Senate special election race to the top of the Mississippi general election ballot.  This agreement has come in the wake of the Mississippi Supreme Court's decision yesterday (9/18) that determined that placement of the race at the bottom of the ballot was illegal.  (See EL@M's coverage of this case here). 

9/15/08
Put MS Senate Race at Top of Ballot, Judge Orders

A Mississippi state trial court judge has ordered that the candidates seeking to fill an empty Senate seat be placed at the top of the ballot, not the bottom (see here).  Although this is generally required for national offices, officials argued that they were entitled to place the race at the bottom, because it was a special election.

9/11/08
MS Ballot Lawsuit

The Mississippi Supreme Court has stopped a lower court from prohibiting the distribution of a controversial sample ballot.  The ballot lists an important US Senate race at the bottom, although Senate races generally are required to be at the top.  Election officials interpreted the law to allow them to place this particular Senate race at the bottom of the ballot, because it is a special election to fill an open seat. [Read More]

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11/11/09
Hosemann: Voter ID inches along

More than half of the 90,000 signatures needed to get a Voter ID Initiative on ballot next year have been gathered, according to Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann.

9/28/09
Signatures may hinder voter ID initiative

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.

9/23/09
Voter ID initiative falls short

An election that would allow Mississippi voters to decide whether they should show identification at the polls appears unlikely for at least another two years.

9/22/09
Hosemann: Voter ID likely on Miss. ballot in 2011

Mississippi's top election official says a voter-identification initiative is more likely to appear on statewide ballots in 2011 rather than 2010.

9/11/09
GOP needs more signatures for voter ID bill

With an Oct. 7 deadline approaching, Mississippi Republican Party Chairman Brad White said Friday about 35,000 signatures have been verified on a petition for a 2010 ballot initiative to require voters to show identification.

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