Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann has done a good job in assuaging the longstanding distrust in the U.S. Justice Department about how Mississippi runs its elections.
By taking a cooperative rather than adversarial approach, the Republican officeholder was able to get voter ID implemented without having to fight off a federal lawsuit.
This week, Hosemann celebrated the fact that the Nov. 8 general election was the first time in a half-century that the Justice Department did not send monitors to Mississippi on Election Day.
Besides reflecting the positive racial changes in this state, there probably was another reason that federal observers went elsewhere.
There was no doubt that Mississippi would vote for the Republican nominee, and all four congressional seats on the ballot were barely contested.
There just wasn’t much to watch, either by the feds or anyone else.
