Secretary of State Michael Watson (R-Miss.) reminded Mississippians of upcoming election dates and deadlines. Qualifying Deadline The qualifying deadline for party primary and independent candidates for municipal offices is Friday,

The Republican candidate wants to bring back state’s old flag with Confederate battle emblem, says Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was ‘no good.’

Senator Jeremy England said this is now at the point where being one of only three states without early voting is causing confusion and frustration in Mississippi elections.

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

Jackson, MS () Mississippi has a long history of voter suppression. An 1890 rule that permanently strips people convicted of certain crimes of their right to

The Supreme Court declined Monday to decide whether a permanent voting ban on people convicted of felonies in Mississippi is cruel and unusual punishment. The court, in 2023, had also rejected a different challenge to the state’s voting restriction that was based on the

GULFPORT, Miss. (WLOX) - As qualifying deadlines for municipal elections later this year are quickly approaching, so is the deadline for the special election to fill Gulfport’s Ward 5 councilperson seat. Candidates who want to run in the special election have until Wednesday, January 29 to file.

State Senator Bradford Blackmon's bill would make it "unlawful" for someone to ejaculate without "the intent to fertilize an embryo."

Election-related debates are slated to happen before Feb. 4 in the Mississippi Senate. Senate Elections Committee Chair Jeremy England, R-Vancleave, told the Clarion Ledger on Thursday he has ...

The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear a challenge to Mississippi's lifetime ban on voting by people convicted of a wide range of felonies, a policy adopted in 1890 during the Jim Crow era that stands as one of the toughest such restrictions in the nation.

Democratic Mississippi Congressmen Bennie Thompson ... when a mob of insurrectionists attacked the Capitol in an attempt to overturn a fair and free election by force and violence" Biden announced in a White House release. "In light of the significance ...

The Downtown Natchez Alliance is hosting a new kind of fundraiser that everyone’s barking, purring or squawking about. It’s the City of Natchez’s first-ever pet mayor election that supports efforts of the non-profit Downtown Natchez Alliance,