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 voters can use the following table to examine voting precincts for Mississippi’s Aug. 8, 2023, party primaries. The Mississippi Free Press compiled the list
Mississippi election officials have made 161 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.
Mississippi’s lifetime voting ban for people convicted of certain crimes, a relic of the State’s 1890 Jim Crow laws, violates the U.S. Constitution, a federal appeals court ruled Friday morning.
Mississippi cannot implement a “ballot harvesting” law that prevents residents from collecting and transmitting absentee ballots on behalf of other voters, including disabled voters, a federal judge said as he issued a temporary order Tuesday evening.
Mississippi’s Jim Crow-era prohibitions on allowing people convicted of certain crimes to vote will remain after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal in the case today.
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.
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.
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