Editor’s Note | Democracy Dies in Politics
Several bills that could have grown democracy in Mississippi died as the state House and Senate killed each other’s proposals.
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Several bills that could have grown democracy in Mississippi died as the state House and Senate killed each other’s proposals.
We hear so much hand-wringing about brain drain in Mississippi, but what we don’t talk about nearly enough is government secrecy.
Mississippi election officials moved at least 10 voting precincts ahead of the Tuesday, March 12, 2024, primaries.
Mississippians need and deserve more election information before they go to the polls. That’s what I heard repeatedly from Gulf Coast residents on March 5 when I joined Mississippi Free Press team members and locals for our first-ever Biloxi Solutions Circles event.
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.
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