Lathan Whirl, left, and Sidney Harper fill out their ballots at Peoples Funeral Home in Jackson after voting during the Mississippi Senate runoff election Tuesday, November 27, 2018. Credit: Eric J. Shelton, Mississippi Today/ Report for America
Below is a political analysis column by Geoff Pender:
Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann and any state senator with an opponent for reelection this year can expect to field lots of questions and campaign-ad jabs about the Senate killing a measure to restore voters’ right to sidestep the Legislature and put measures on a statewide ballot.