After historic turnout during the midterms, Mississippi has a chance to reform its archaic, suppressive election system, civil rights and grassroots pro-voting organizations say.
Mississippi Secretary of State Michael Watson (R) defended his office’s controversial voter purge program, insisting it is working as designed despite widespread problems that forced thousands of voters to cast affidavit ballots.
Pro-voting demonstrators protested U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche’s appearance Monday near where crucial voting processes are playing out in Mississippi’s closely watched midterm election.
A last-minute lawsuit demanding a hand count of every paper ballot in Texas goes far beyond anything state election law requires, Potter County said in support of a motion to dismiss the case.
Gov.-elect Keisha Lance Bottoms proposed during her campaign getting rid of the election board and replacing it with an independent voting commission.
With Mississippi’s U.S. Senate race still too close to call, voters, grassroots pro-voting groups and election workers across the state told Democracy Docket they are deeply frustrated and concerned with the large number of voters flagged as inactive this election.
The 2026 midterms did more than hand Democrats sweeping gains across Congress and state governments. Voters nationwide also removed from power — and denied promotions to — some of the country’s most prolific architects and defenders of voting restrictions.
The Trump administration voluntarily dismissed its lawsuit against California, abandoning its effort to force election officials to set aside thousands of mail ballots cast by voters it suspected of being noncitizens.
Mississippi’s Senate race is nail-bitingly close — and the legal and political battle over the count has already kicked off.
A few months ago, Mississippi’s secretary of state quietly deleted state regulations that let mail voters fix minor issues with their ballots after casting them, putting those votes at risk this year.
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