"Regardless of your views and opinions on Voter ID, our goal was to educate and engage all citizens of our State in a light-hearted and entertaining way."
—Mississippi Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann on awards his office received for informational TV ads for the state's new Voter ID law, which takes effect in June.
Why it stinks: Regardless of Hosemann's views and opinions, there are plenty of citizens and civil-rights groups that still fear that voter ID will disproportionately affect minorities, poor people, college students and senior citizens. But with the U.S. Supreme Court clearing the way for its implementation, there's little they can do it about. Such groups are busy doing a lot of public outreach of their own in preparation for the new law, but they are doing so with a heavy heart.
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