GOP needs more signatures for voter ID bill
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Sun Herald: 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. The state GOP is under the gun to collect the needed signatures to get the initiative on the ballot in 2010, which is a Congressional election year. White said besides the 35,000 verified signatures and a few thousand more being processed by circuit clerks, hundreds are showing up at his office daily. Only a few weeks remain to get nearly 55,000 more verified signatures to reach the required total, which must be evenly divided between five areas of the state.
White said the GOP is still shooting for the 2010 election. “I’m cautiously optimistic about 2010,” White said. Under state law, the GOP needs at least 89,285 signatures, with at least 17,857 certified from each of Mississippi’s five Congressional districts as they existed in 2000, even though the state currently has four Congressional districts. To get the voter ID initiative on the ballot in 2010, the signatures would have to be collected by Oct. 7. If the GOP doesn’t collect the signatures by Oct. 7, they would have to get them by a February deadline to get the initiative on the ballot in 2011, when the next governor and other statewide officials will be elected.
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