Rob Smith: Candidate for Mississippi Secretary of State
The big reason Democrats want to hold onto this job, and Republicans want to take it away, is that the secretary of state is Mississippi's top elections officer and, as such, could influence legislators on issues such as voter identification.
Or so explains the AP in a round up piece on the Mississippi SoS race.
Real estate developer and former state senator Rob Smith won Mississippi's Secretary of State primary on August 20. Clarion-Ledger perspectives editor Sid Salter has the story.
In the primary, Smith framed his strengths around running the Secretary of State's office like a business. He did come out against voter ID, but voting reform has not been the centerpiece of his campaign. In fact, his campaign home page doesn't even mention any positions he might have on election reform.
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