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🧵 Mississippi is violating the National Voter Registration Act because it fails to conduct voter registration when claimants apply for pandemic assistance benefits.

Mississippi should remedy this violation ASAP before we're bailed back into Voting Rights Act preclearance. 1/
The NVRA requires Mississippi to offer voter registration at every office that provides public assistance. See subsection (2)(B)) 👇 2/
law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/52…
The NVRA does not treat "unemployment compensation" as "public assistance" (see subsection (3)(B)(i)).

But pandemic assistance—the $600 weekly benefit that MDES is administering in addition to unemployment compensation— IS "public assistance." Pandemic assistance is welfare. 3/
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