Editor’s Note | Democracy Dies in Politics
Several bills that could have grown democracy in Mississippi died as the state House and Senate killed each other’s proposals.
Several bills that could have grown democracy in Mississippi died as the state House and Senate killed each other’s proposals.
We should probably call this my annual Easter publisher’s note because I’m always writing one of these right before Easter Sunday. Next year, I might
Mississippians need and deserve more election information before they go to the polls. That’s what I heard repeatedly from Gulf Coast residents on March 5 when I joined Mississippi Free Press team members and locals for our first-ever Biloxi Solutions Circles event.
The Hinds County Election Commission met with voting-rights advocates to answer questions about the ballot shortages that occurred on Nov. 7, 2023.
Many of us are focused on gratitude and gatherings with friends or family this week. Some of us use this time to reset as the
At least 92 voting precincts in Mississippi’s Statewide Election Management System have missing, incomplete, incorrect or old addresses.
Mississippi voters can use the following table to examine voting precincts for Mississippi’s Nov. 7, 2023, statewide elections.
“Are shifting voting locations and outdated intentional suppression? Or is it about poor systems and oversight and general half-assed ‘good enough’ approaches that too often make excellence in Mississippi so difficult? I suspect it’s a combination of both.”
County election officials in Mississippi have made changes to at least 97 polling places since the 2020 election, including 27 changes since the June 2022 primaries, a Mississippi Free Press investigation finds.
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