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    The Biggest Non-Story in Tuesday’s Elections? Mississippi Voter ID Implemented With No Problems

    It wasn’t the biggest story following Tuesday’s elections in various states, but it was the biggest and most-ignored non-story. Mississippi’s new voter ID law got its first run in the June 3 primary, and the sky did not fall. Despite the tiresome and disproven claims by opponents that such laws cause wholesale voter disenfranchisement and…
    Hans von Spakovsky
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    • News

    Favoritism and Cronyism Flourish in Mississippi

    When a new megadeal with a corporation moving to Mississippi is announced, politicians hold a news conference, cut a cake, boast about the number of jobs created and toss some dirt with gold shovels. But recently published research by Christopher Coyne and Lotta Moberg of the Mercatus Center at George Mason University casts major doubt…
    Steve Wilson
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