This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here.” In the weeks leading up to the 2024 presidential election, Hurricane Helene made landfall, causing extensive ...

Election clerks in both parties, who have been subject to harassment and lawsuits over Trump’s 2020 false election claims, worry about efforts to examine their voting machines.

Mississippi Today, in partnership with Rethink Mississippi (an initiative sponsored by the nonprofit Working Together ...

Mississippi Secretary of State Michael Watson praises the Trump administration's focus on election integrity. Watson ...

Mississippi election officials can no longer change polling places within 60 days of an election, except under special ...

A new Mississippi law now bans polling place changes within 60 days of an election unless there are emergency circumstances.

The Mississippi Legislature’s attempt to skirt the law would have actually diminished Black voting power in the northwest corner of the state.” Jarvis Dortch, executive director of the ACLU of ...

More than 60 individual suffrage bills have been filed for Mississippi lawmaker to consider. There was also a disenfranchisement reform bill earlier in the session, but it died in the House.

Cruel and unusual? Supreme Court declines to review Mississippi voting ban for convicted felons Mississippi is one of eleven states that doesn't automatically restore voting rights after convicted ...

The Supreme Court has left in place Mississippi's Jim Crow-era practice of removing voting rights from people convicted of certain felonies, including nonviolent crimes such as forgery and timber ...

The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear a challenge to Mississippi's lifetime ban on voting by people convicted of a wide range of felonies.