Mississippi makes it harder to cast a ballot than almost anywhere else. Voters defied the system
A Democracy Docket article reports that Democrat Scott Colom narrowly leads Republican Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith in Mississippi's Senate race, with turnout up 35% over the last midterm despite the state's restrictive voting laws, which it says make voting perhaps harder than anywhere else in the country. NAACP president Derrick Johnson, in a quoted interview, calls the lack of no-excuse early voting voter suppression and hopes for massive reform of the state's voting policy.
