Opinion | ‘Team-Sports’ Politics Undermines Democracy, Cheapens Votes
Deputy Editor Nate Schumann writes on the dangers of treating politics like “team sports” and encourages Mississippians to become more politically informed.
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.”
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
Mississippians will be able to begin casting absentee ballots in person for this year’s statewide, regional and legislative offices beginning Monday, Sept. 25.
Mississippi should restore the voting rights of formerly incarcerated people, Democratic candidate for Mississippi attorney general Greta Kemp Martin said in a joint press conference with Democratic candidate for secretary of state Ty Pinkins in Greenville, Miss., on Sept. 14.
“As the religious landscape changes, new potential voters may be ready to engage—if political leadership can enact policies that help them turn out, and inspire them to turn out, too,” Evan Stewart writes.
Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves claimed in an Aug. 28, 2023 tweet that his Democratic opponent, Brandon Presley, had called on him to disassociate from donors to the University of Southern Mississippi and that he had called all USM supporters “corrupt” in relation to the state’s $77 million welfare scandal.
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.
Duvalier Malone writes that frequently changing polling places during elections not only confuse, disenfranchise and further alienate Mississippi voters in marginalized communities of color, but also put the state’s democracy at risk.
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