Current:Home > MarketsMississippi voter registration numbers remain steady heading into Tuesday’s general election-LoTradeCoin
Mississippi voter registration numbers remain steady heading into Tuesday’s general election
View Date:2024-12-24 00:05:30
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi has seen a slight increase in the number of people listed on the rolls of active voters in the months leading up to the general election for governor and other offices, state records show.
From April 1 through Oct. 1, roughly 33,000 people filled out voter-registration forms. About 300 were rejected, and more than 32,000 other voters were moved from active to inactive status — something that happens when people do not cast a ballot in multiple elections.
The active voter count increased by 334 or 0.02%. Mississippi had about 1.92 million active voters as of Oct. 1.
The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal obtained information about voter rolls from the secretary of state’s office through a public records request.
Another 40,000 voters who were on the inactive list were removed from the rolls. These could be people who died, moved or did not vote for other reasons.
The general election for statewide, legislative, regional and local offices is Tuesday.
About 154,000 voters are on inactive status. Their circuit clerk should have sent these voters notices of their status change, after which they have four years to confirm they are still living at their registered address. Voters who fail to return the notice are removed from the rolls.
Inactive voters who show up to the proper precinct on Election Day or to the circuit clerk’s office during absentee in-person voting before the election may submit affidavit ballots. Those ballots are reviewed by local election commissioners to determine if they can be counted and if the voter can be returned to the active list.
Mississippi’s Republican-controlled legislature in recent years has enacted laws to centralize oversight of voter rolls and require counties to review and remove voters who do not meet certain criteria.
House Bill 1310, signed by Republican Gov. Tate Reeves in April, requires counties to review the rolls each presidential election cycle. Anyone who has not voted since the previous primary election four years before must be moved to inactive status.
The law also empowers the secretary of state to audit elections in all 82 counties for several years, beginning this year.
Opponents argue the law makes it harder for people to vote who skip some elections, effectively reducing the impact of high-turnout elections that attract infrequent voters.
Mississippi voters can check their registration at the secretary of state’s elections website, yallvote.sos.ms.gov, or call 1-800-829-6786.
veryGood! (1)
Related
- Ford agrees to pay up to $165 million penalty to US government for moving too slowly on recalls
- New Jersey’s 3 nuclear power plants seek to extend licenses for another 20 years
- Panama and Colombia fail to protect migrants on Darien jungle route, Human Rights Watch says
- As Roe v. Wade fell, teenage girls formed a mock government in ‘Girls State’
- Republican Rep. Juan Ciscomani wins reelection to Arizona US House seat
- Trump Media sues former Apprentice contestants and Truth Social co-founders to strip them of shares
- Man wins $2.6 million after receiving a scratch-off ticket from his father
- Pickup rollover crash kills 3, injures 5 in northern Arizona
- Bluesky has added 1 million users since the US election as people seek alternatives to X
- Recipient of world's first pig kidney transplant discharged from Boston hospital
Ranking
- Tua Tagovailoa playing with confidence as Miami Dolphins hope MNF win can spark run
- Ole Miss women's basketball adds former Syracuse coach who resigned after investigation
- How the 2024 solar eclipse could impact the end of Ramadan and start of Eid
- GOP suffers big setback in effort to make winning potentially critical Nebraska electoral vote more likely
- Wheel of Fortune Contestant Goes Viral Over His Hilariously Wrong Answer
- Experienced climber found dead in Mount St. Helens volcano crater 1,200 feet below summit
- A former Houston police officer is indicted again on murder counts in a fatal 2019 drug raid
- 'New Mr. WrestleMania' Seth Rollins readies to face 'the very best version' of The Rock
Recommendation
-
DWTS' Sasha Farber Claps Back at Diss From Jenn Tran's Ex Devin Strader
-
'Coordinated Lunar Time': NASA asked to give the moon its own time zone
-
Man who used megaphone to lead attack on Capitol police sentenced to more than 7 years in prison
-
Mark Cuban defends diversity, equity and inclusion policies even as critics swarm
-
Watch out, Temu: Amazon Haul, Amazon's new discount store, is coming for the holidays
-
Average long-term US mortgage rate rises modestly this week, holding just below 7%
-
Earthquake in Taiwan blamed for at least 9 deaths as buildings and roads seriously damaged
-
Planters is looking to hire drivers to cruise in its Nutmobile: What to know about the job