AP: Michigan Rep. asks Justice Dept. to Investigate Mississippi Ballot
The Associated Press is reporting that Rep. John Conyers, the Democratic chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, spoke out against Barbour’s sample ballot today. He repeated the charge that a ballot with the Wicker-Musgrove Senate race near the bottom will disenfranchise voters.
Conyers called the sample ballot “a blatant violation” of the Voting Rights Act. Ironically, Barbour has made the same claim about the alternate ballot that Trudy Berger and Tomie Green have proposed, because it would constitute a change in voting procedure from the past practice of placing special elections at the end.
Posted by Ward Schaefer at 04:33 PM in MS Newspapers | Email this entry
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