In the Natchez Democrat, the Mississippi Secretary of State predicts the passage of a referendum on a new voter identification requirement:  “When I was elected, I had great concerns about the validity of some elections in Mississippi,” he said.  The requirements the state has at the moment are fairly straightforward, Hosemann said, listing out being a citizen of the state, voting in the correct precinct and for a voter to be alive and not just a name on a voter roll.  “It’s pretty basic stuff,” he said, with a laugh. “But not all counties have signed onto this.”

After a couple of years of trying to secure voter ID requirements through the Legislature, Hosemann and others secured the nearly 100,000 signatures needed to put the issue on the ballot and take it straight to the people.  Hosemann said more than two-dozen statewide referendums have been attempted in Mississippi’s history.  “None has ever passed,” Hosemann said. “I anticipate all three of those (on the ballot in November) will pass.”

As it appears the citizens of Mississippi will approve this referendum, the Mississippi Executive Branch should start now consulting with Georgia and other jurisdictions on the best way to properly defend the will of the people.  Mississippi may very well conclude, as Georgia and an increasing number of southern states under Section 5 have, that the wisest course of action is simply bypassing the biased and partisan Obama Department of Justice and going straight to federal court for a fair and neutral hearing on the issue.