“Remember: Your vote is your voice, so get out and vote on Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2022, and exercise one of your greatest civil liberties. If you will be out of the county on Election Day, make plans to cast your absentee ballot in advance.”
Mississippi Secretary of State Michael Watson says that voters who registered to vote on May 31, 2022, will not appear in the poll books today and should vote affidavit.
Local Mississippi election officials have made 70 changes to voting precincts in dozens of counties since the 2020 election, a Mississippi Free Press examination has found.
A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit that challenged a 1924 Mississippi law that required naturalized citizens to show proof of citizenship in order to vote. Both the plaintiffs and the defendants, including the Mississippi secretary of state, asked for the dismissal after the Legislature adopted a new law this spring that addresses concerns immigrant and voting rights groups raised.
Mississippi may be less likely to wrongly remove naturalized immigrants from the voting rolls under a new bill Gov. Tate Reeves signed into law today.
Mississippi’s standard license plates violate First Amendment freedoms for atheists and non-Christians by requiring drivers to display the words “In God We Trust” or pay a fee for an alternative design, a group of atheists said in a federal court filing today.
The Confederate sympathizers across the state sleep well tonight. Oh, 2020 was a tumultuous year for them, as they saw their beloved stars and bars removed from the state flag. But they know that they still have outsized political influence in the state.
Mississippi Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann Mississippians to know that voters can obtain the necessary photo ID to cast a ballot free of charge.
The Mississippi Sovereignty Commission, a state-funded spy agency charged with resisting integration and civil-rights activity, actively surveilled these civil rights activists and allowed law enforcement agencies to openly violate their constitutional rights in Jim Crow Mississippi. Those were dangerous times that still affect my family today.
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