Hinds County Ballot Shortages Draw Congressional Scrutiny
Hinds County’s failure to ensure voters had enough ballots to vote in Mississippi’s Nov. 7 general election is drawing scrutiny from Congress.
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Hinds County’s failure to ensure voters had enough ballots to vote in Mississippi’s Nov. 7 general election is drawing scrutiny from Congress.
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.
Voters will elect candidates to regional, legislative and state representatives in Mississippi’s general election on Nov. 7.
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 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.
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.
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