A coalition of voting rights groups is now asking a federal court to block Senate Bill 2358 on behalf of the three Okolona residents along with Disability Rights Mississippi and the League of Women Voters of Mississippi.
Mississippi election officials will be able to purge names from voter rolls more easily if Gov. Tate Reeves signs House Bill 1310 into law.
Mississippians who collect or transmit a mailed absentee ballot on behalf of someone else could be charged with a misdemeanor offense and face up to one year in a county jail or a fine of up to $3,000 after Gov. Tate Reeves signed Senate Bill 2358 into law on Wednesday.
“Our goal is to not only improve our state’s natural resources, but use them in a responsible manner to better Mississippi,” Secretary of State Michael Watson writes.
“While I believe Mississippi would be more prosperous with better leadership at the top, leadership that fostered teamwork as opposed to micromanagement, leadership that cared more for Mississippi than politics, I’m not at peace leaving the work we’ve started here at the Secretary of State’s office because there’s a lot more to be done,” Mississippi Secretary of State Michael Watson said.
Democrat Shuwaski Young, who announced his run for Mississippi Secretary of States on Jan. 10, 2023, said he will focus on reforming the voting process.
The Mississippi Secretary of State’s website went down for several hours on Tuesday after succumbing to an Election Day cyber attack.
Mississippi election officials risk disenfranchising thousands of voters unless they make changes to ensure voters have access to accurate polling-site information, a coalition of civil-rights and voting-rights groups said in a letter to Mississippi Secretary of State Michael Watson on Friday, Oct. 14.
After several of Mississippi’s top officials, including Gov. Tate Reeves, criticized a new program designed to incentivize the growth of solar energy in schools and residential areas, the Mississippi Public Service Commission met today to reaffirm its support for the policy. Critics claim it will raise energy costs for customers statewide.
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