Hinds County Ballot Shortages Draw Congressional Scrutiny
Hinds County’s failure to ensure voters had enough ballots to vote in Mississippi’s Nov. 7 general election is drawing scrutiny from Congress.
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Hinds County’s failure to ensure voters had enough ballots to vote in Mississippi’s Nov. 7 general election is drawing scrutiny from Congress.
At least nine Hinds County polling places ran out of ballots over the course of Election Day as voters headed to the polls to elect a governor and to vote for other statewide, legislative, regional and local offices. Hinds County includes Jackson, the nearly 83%-Black capital city.
At least 92 voting precincts in Mississippi’s Statewide Election Management System have missing, incomplete, incorrect or old addresses.
Gwendolyn Gray, an independent candidate for Mississippi governor, is withdrawing from the governor’s race, she announced Monday while endorsing Democrat Brandon Presley’s effort to unseat
Democrat Ty Pinkins will replace Shuwaski Young as the party’s secretary of state candidate on the Nov. 7 general election ballot, the Mississippi Democratic Party announced Thursday at a press conference at the Capitol in Jackson, Miss., on Thursday.
Democratic candidate Shuwaski Young plans to withdraw from the Mississippi secretary of state race because of health concerns, he announced Sunday in a press release.
Just shy of 6 p.m. Monday, Hinds County officials announced that they were moving two precincts just over 13 hours before polls open for the party primaries for statewide, legislative and county offices.
Mississippi election officials have made 164 voting precinct changes since November 2022, leaving voters with slightly fewer voting precincts statewide and dozens moved after the completion of post-Census redistricting efforts, a Mississippi Free Press investigation has found.
In party primaries across Mississippi on Tuesday, Aug. 8, Democrats and Republicans will choose candidates to represent their parties in statewide, legislative and county offices for the Nov. 7 general election.
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