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NEW: Local Mississippi election officials have made at least 97 changes to polling places since the 2020 election, our investigation found.
But some weren't reflected in the state elections database that voters rely on for locating their polling place.
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But some weren't reflected in the state elections database that voters rely on for locating their polling place.
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Since 2020, county election officials in Mississippi have relocated precincts 63 times, closed 19 precincts and opened 12 new precincts.
At least 27 of those changes have happened since the June 2022 primaries.
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At least 27 of those changes have happened since the June 2022 primaries.
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Unlike other states, Mississippi doesn't provide an updated lists of all polling places to the public.
To identify recent changes, @_wspittman and I made a public records request to the SOS and emailed or called election officials in all 82 counties.
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To identify recent changes, @_wspittman and I made a public records request to the SOS and emailed or called election officials in all 82 counties.
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Can't help it, I've gotta crow about the new @armandalegshow: How to avoid the crappiest health insurance.
Useful? Yes. Also super-fun, starting with @mit_kab taking us for wild ride about a scam that uses Google. Very effectively.
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Useful? Yes. Also super-fun, starting with @mit_kab taking us for wild ride about a scam that uses Google. Very effectively.
armandalegshow.com/episode/avoid-…
If you google "ACA enroll" the first results will be scam sites. They'll look convincing. You fill in your phone number, then get a zillion calls from folks trying to sell you junk insurance.
Georgetown researcher @DaniaPal did it and took good notes.
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Georgetown researcher @DaniaPal did it and took good notes.
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"The people you're talking to have a script that's written to make you feel comfortable. And every question has what seems like the right answer—if you don't know that it's the wrong answer,"
@DaniaPal, describing the salesfolks peddling crap insurance.
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@DaniaPal, describing the salesfolks peddling crap insurance.
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🚨🧵 Journalist @TorshetaJ kicked off @BWCProject by going home to Noxubee County to dig up why COVID was harder on Black women. 1/
"A Saturday evening summer ride through downtown Shuqualak, this journalist’s hometown, reveals a proverbial ghost town."
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"A Saturday evening summer ride through downtown Shuqualak, this journalist’s hometown, reveals a proverbial ghost town."
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In her crumbling hometown, @TorshetaJ revisited boarded-up schools, employers and businesses, amid poverty: "A concrete slab is all that is left of the Shuqualak Glove Factory, which at one time was one of the town’s most prolific employers." 2/
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.@TorshetaJ's 85% Black hometown no longer has a grocery story; last one is boarded up. The poverty rate was 37.5% as of 2020, and the population has steadily declined with an individual median income of $13,656 in 2019. 3/
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NEW: Attorney General Lynn Fitch today asked a federal judge to block President Biden's vaccine mandate for workers in hospitals, nursing homes, hospices and other LTCs.
They have already "gone above and beyond the call of duty," the Mississippi AG said.
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They have already "gone above and beyond the call of duty," the Mississippi AG said.
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Mississippi AG Lynn Fitch: "Now, for no other reason than the President’s desire to check the box on universal vaccination, these heroes are being forced to choose between vaccination and their jobs."
MS has the highest COVID-19 death rate nationwide.
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MS has the highest COVID-19 death rate nationwide.
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On Friday, a Republican-appointed panel on the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals temporarily blocked another Biden vaccine mandate for companies with 100 employees or more.
The Biden admin says it will "likely cost dozens or even hundreds of lives per day.”
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The Biden admin says it will "likely cost dozens or even hundreds of lives per day.”
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NEW: Gov. Mississippi will sue the Biden administration to block his federal vaccine mandates and "push back on federal tyranny," says Gov. Tate Reeves.
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“Joe Biden’s vaccine mandates are one of the most shocking attacks on personal liberty in this country during my lifetime,” says Gov. Tate Reeves, who in 2015 presided over the passage of a bill to incarcerate tuberculosis patients who refuse treatment.
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Gov. Tate Reeves: “I am a strong supporter of the COVID vaccines and commend the Trump administration’s efforts to develop it. … The federal mandates, however, threaten every Mississippians’ individual liberties. They are nothing short of tyranny.”
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Our two-person newsroom worked hard in 2020 to publish hundreds of impactful stories on money in politics. Here's some of the work we're proud of.
First up, we scraped disclosures to create a comprehensive list of Congress' fossil fuel investments. readsludge.com/2020/01/03/mem…
First up, we scraped disclosures to create a comprehensive list of Congress' fossil fuel investments. readsludge.com/2020/01/03/mem…
We analyzed defense PAC money and found that the Democrats who oppose modest cuts to the Pentagon budget rely more heavily on defense industry cash for their campaigns. readsludge.com/2020/07/22/dem…
Speaking of defense cash, we put out a report on the members of Congress who own defense stocks, including in companies that get much of their revenue through congressional appropriations. readsludge.com/2020/01/13/the…
NEW: #ChinaCables is a leak of highly classified Chinese documents that expose the inner workings of mass detention camps in Xinjiang and reveal, in the government's own words, how it manages the day-to-day internment and forced indoctrination of Uighurs.
bit.ly/2QT3iHg
bit.ly/2QT3iHg
Together with 75+ reporters from 17 media partners in 14 countries, we spoke with more than 40 Uighurs and experts, including @AdrianzenS, who confirmed what the documents told us. bit.ly/2KJ3Vj1 #ChinaCables
@AdrianzenS Our investigation confirms the scale of the mass-detention program and reveals the severity of conditions hidden behind fences and watchtowers. Watch: bit.ly/2KOAaxn #ChinaCables
In the last decade, American taxpayers have spent at least $40 million on Confederate memorials and sites that perpetuate racist ideology. With @SmithsonianMag: ow.ly/rF3K30mN2PV 1/
Beauvoir, a site in Biloxi, Mississippi, received more than $21 million in taxpayer funds in recent years. A tour guide claimed slavery "was good for the people that didn’t know how to take care of themselves, and they needed a job." 2/
