JACKSON, MS (Mississippi News Now) -
While
there may have been a number of surprises nationwide in Tuesday's national
election, there were very few surprises in Mississippi. No upsets were expected
nor did any occur in any of the 10 large races in our state.
But, there were
hiccups in some areas of Mississippi including, as expected, Jackson.
Thousands
of voters in Congressman Harper's district, in northeast Jackson, were surprised
to learn that they had been snuck into Congressman Thompson's 2nd district.
The
district lines on the 2012 map shows no change, but nobody can fully explain
what happened.
The election commission said it sent out notices of the precinct
changes, but voters don't recall being sent one.
Secretary of State Hoseman
says he going to look into it.
Maybe it's one of those cases in which the first
casualty of political gerrymandering is truth and honesty.
That's my point of
view.
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