Another election year is over, but our work interrogating Mississippi’s election systems—from ballot shortages to database errors—certainly is not.
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.
Jackson Public Schools released a video urging residents to vote in Mississippi’s statewide elections.
LaWanda Dickens encourages Mississippians to vote in their best interest in today’s gubernatorial election.
Mississippi voters can use the following table to examine voting precincts for Mississippi’s Nov. 7, 2023, statewide elections.
Duvalier Malone writes that low voter turnout delegitimizes the government, affects minorities and threatens Mississippi’s democracy.
Deputy Editor Nate Schumann writes on the dangers of treating politics like “team sports” and encourages Mississippians to become more politically informed.
Students from several historically Black colleges and universities in Mississippi participated in the “HBCU Get Out the Vote Tour.”
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