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WJTV| February 10, 2021 JACKSON, Miss. – On Wednesday, the Mississippi Senate passed Senate Bill 2588 (SB 2588). The bill would allow for quicker purging of names from voter rolls.

It’s clear that if Mississippi lawmakers want to ensure accurate voter rolls, they should avoid adopting the same mess of a purging process that Ohio implemented in 2016.

By Angela Williams  |WAPT 16| February 5, 2021 Jackson, Miss. - President Joe Biden’s executive order designed to allow equal transgender participation in school sports.

By Angela Williams |WAPT 16| February 4, 2021 JACKSON, Miss. — Officials with the ACLU of Mississippi said they are troubled by the slaying of a Black transgender woman in Jackson.

This legislative session, Mississippi lawmakers are considering whether or not to adopt HB 586: a bill that is said to protect the vote by comparing a state registry against other identification databases across the country, purging those deemed non-citizens from the electoral roll.

HB 586 proposes a database matching scheme to compare statewide voter rolls with county, state and federal database records in an effort to identify and purge non-citizens from the voter rolls.

By Anthony Warren | WLBT | January 26, 2021 JACKSON, Miss. - The ACLU of Mississippi says that Senate Bill 2588 is a voter-suppression tool, and would “force election commissioners to remove voters from the voter rolls for simply not voting.”

By Desare Frazier |MPB| January 25, 2021 Joshua Tom with the American Civil Liberties Union says it’s a person’s First Amendment right to ask for money in public.

By John Riley |Metro Weekly| January 22, 2021