The vote failed earlier this week when too many Republican state senators broke for lunch early.   This time, the budget appropriation passed.  Another example of the high burden of Section 5.

The Mississippi Senate on Tuesday approved $695,000 for the secretary
of state to defend a proposed voter identification law, and the budget
bill moves on to the House for more work.The
secretary of state’s overall $13 million budget for fiscal 2014 was
rejected last week, but several senators were out of the chamber at the
time. During a second vote Tuesday when attendance was better, senators
passed the measure