
Editor’s Note | Interrogating Mississippi’s Election Systems
Another election year is over, but our work interrogating Mississippi’s election systems—from ballot shortages to database errors—certainly is not.
Another election year is over, but our work interrogating Mississippi’s election systems—from ballot shortages to database errors—certainly is not.
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.
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 164 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.
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.
Mississippi election officials risk disenfranchising thousands of voters unless they make changes to ensure voters have access to accurate polling-site information, a coalition of civil-rights and voting-rights groups said in a letter to Mississippi Secretary of State Michael Watson on Friday, Oct. 14.
On Election Day last November, many Mississippians waited for hours in line to cast their ballots at some precincts, requiring some to miss work or find babysitters for their children. Now, a north Mississippi lawmaker and a group of activists have a plan to make democracy more accessible and flexible.
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