Voter Registration Deadline For Mississippi’s Nov. 7 Elections Is Oct. 9; Must Be Postmarked by Oct. 10
Mississippi residents who plan to vote in the Nov. 7 statewide elections must register to vote in-person by 5 p.m. today, Monday, Oct. 9, or
Mississippi residents who plan to vote in the Nov. 7 statewide elections must register to vote in-person by 5 p.m. today, Monday, Oct. 9, or
Republican and Democratic voters will pick candidates to represent their parties in the runoff election on Tuesday, Aug. 29, ahead of the general election on Nov. 7.
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.
Alabama must draw a second majority-Black congressional district after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled this morning that the State violated the voting rights of its Black residents under Section 2 of the federal Voting Rights Act.
In elections across the state on Tuesday, June 8, Mississippians will vote for leaders who will serve their towns and cities for the next four years, including mayors, city councilmembers, alderpersons and other offices.
Mississippi Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann Mississippians to know that voters can obtain the necessary photo ID to cast a ballot free of charge.
After drawing national headlines for suggesting that registering “woke” and “uninformed” college students to vote would be bad for the nation, Mississippi’s top elections official is expressing some regret.
Driver’s license suspensions over unpaid fines have long triggered a devastating domino effect on poor Americans, costing them not only their ability to commute, but their jobs and livelihood. But the 35 states that continue to enforce such penalties could find new reasons to reconsider if a bill that U.S. Sens. Roger Wicker, a Mississippi Republican, and Chris Coons, a Delaware Democrat, introduced today becomes law.
A new federal voting-rights bill would not overturn Mississippi’s photo-identification requirement for voting, despite claims U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith repeated yesterday as she denounced S. 1, the “For The People Act,” casting it as a “radical” intrusion on state’s powers.
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