Limiting Polling-Place Changes, Criminalizing Harmful AI: #MSLeg Roundup
Mississippi could limit last-minute polling-place changes, ban AI images intended to cause harm and more.
Mississippi could limit last-minute polling-place changes, ban AI images intended to cause harm and more.
Jackson Public Schools released a video urging residents to vote in Mississippi’s statewide elections.
Duvalier Malone writes that low voter turnout delegitimizes the government, affects minorities and threatens Mississippi’s democracy.
Students from several historically Black colleges and universities in Mississippi participated in the “HBCU Get Out the Vote Tour.”
Democratic Mississippi Secretary of State Nominee Shuwaski Young says he is “appalled” by incumbent Republican Michael Watson’s support of Senate Bill 2358, a “ballot harvesting” ban set to take effect on July 1, 2023.
Three Jackson residents are suing to stop House Bill 1020, saying the new law violates the Mississippi Constitution and dilutes local voting power with unelected, state-appointed judges.
Mississippi voters can use the following table to examine polling place locations for the Nov. 8, 2022, midterm elections.
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.
“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.”
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