# Mississippi Voter ID law put on Hold for Election. **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [October 3, 2012, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mississippi-voter-id-law-put-on-hold-for-election/636627 "2012-10-03T21:44:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2012, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mississippi-voter-id-law-put-on-hold-for-election/636627/1 "2012-10-03T21:44:29Z")
> **[Another Voter ID Law Strikes Out](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mississippi-voter-id-law_n_1934121)** > > Another Voter ID Law Strikes Out > [@](#): > > Mississippi’s controversial new law requiring voters to show photo identification at the polls will not be in effect for the November general election while federal officials review whether the measure is discriminatory, the state said on Tuesday. > > It was the second setback for voter ID laws in a single day, coming on the heels of a judge in Pennsylvania ordering officials there to delay implementing a photo ID requirement until after the Nov. 6 election. > > Voters in Mississippi approved a voter ID ballot initiative by a wide margin last November. > > But as part of the implementation, the state provided insufficient evidence for the U.S. Department of Justice to determine whether the new law would violate the Voting Rights Act, the agency’s voting section chief T. Christian Herren Jr. said in a letter on Monday. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2012, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mississippi-voter-id-law-put-on-hold-for-election/636627/2 "2012-10-03T21:46:34Z")
This could be the break the Obama campaign has been hoping for! ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2012, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mississippi-voter-id-law-put-on-hold-for-election/636627/3 "2012-10-03T21:47:29Z")
As if they need breaks! ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2012, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mississippi-voter-id-law-put-on-hold-for-election/636627/4 "2012-10-03T22:01:26Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > This could be the break the Obama campaign has been hoping for! Yeah!! And all the statewide democrats in Mississippi too! ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2012, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mississippi-voter-id-law-put-on-hold-for-election/636627/5 "2012-10-03T22:44:20Z")
And it’s _all legal_! Hahahaha, suck it, Pubbies! There, that’s out of the way. Proceed. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2012, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mississippi-voter-id-law-put-on-hold-for-election/636627/6 "2012-10-04T00:12:22Z")
Ummm, proceed _where_? It’s not as if there’s actually any other reason for this thread to exist, is there? ---
**Author:** ![Zakalwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zakalwe/32/270_2.png) [@Zakalwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zakalwe)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2012, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mississippi-voter-id-law-put-on-hold-for-election/636627/7 "2012-10-04T00:36:50Z")
You know, a potential problem for the Republicans is that, assuming they can jettison the immigration issue, but keep everything else, they would start capturing more of the Hispanic vote and then they’d have a hell of time dismantling all these laws they are busy passing…