Voting rights experts say Mississippi’s restrictions are among the harshest because the state bans voting by first-time ...

The Supreme Court has left in place Mississippi’s Jim Crow-era practice of removing voting rights from people convicted of ...

The Supreme Court on Monday said it will not consider whether a Mississippi law banning people convicted of certain felonies ...

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

VOTE 2025: These candidates have submitted papers to qualify for South Mississippi municipal elections Candidates who want to ...

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The Senate Elections Committee is likely to consider more than a few election-related bills by a Feb. 4 deadline.

The class action suit was brought in 2018 by six Mississippi men - including white and Black plaintiffs - who lost the right to vote even though they have completed their sentences for various ...

Widespread at the time, that practice has since fallen out of favor in many states, although a minority still disenfranchise people who commit serious, non-election-related crimes. This week, we ...

On January 27, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear a challenge to Mississippi's lifetime voting ban for people convicted of certain felonies The law, created in 1890 during the Jim Crow era, is one ...