(Miss) Supreme Court: Senate race belongs at top (Musgrove / Wicker)

[brooklynite]

Source: Hattiesburg American

Mississippi’s highest court says a U.S. Senate race between Roger Wicker and Ronnie Musgrove should be at the top of the ballot, but justices did not go so far as to order the ballot rearranged.

A ballot recently sent to election commissioners puts the race near the bottom. It was approved by Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann and Gov. Haley Barbour, both Republicans.

Hinds County Circuit Court Judge Tomie Green ordered the race elevated after a Pike County election commissioner sued the governor. Barbour and Hosemann then appealed to the state Supreme Court.

“We find that the special election for U.S. Senator must be listed in the first category of the ballot, along with all other national elections, and the law assumes the governor and secretary of state will follow the law,” Justice Jess Dickinson wrote in a 10-page ruling.

Read more: http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080918/NEWS01/80918025

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Haley Barbour has always struck me as a "good ol' boy" political operator, but such a bare-faced attempt to rig the ballot is really surprising in a Presidential election year with such a high-profile race

[Alexander]

1. The headline in the link says "Supreme Court: Senate race belongs on top"

From that headline, it sounds like this was a court order to put their names back at the top.

Which is obviously not the case.

[brooklynite]

4. Corrected - they must have changed it since I posted.

[pleah]

2. It's Mississippi, enough said. n/t

[billyoc]

3. Still burnin', ah see...

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