NEW: Local Mississippi election officials have changed the polling locations for 5,000 Mississippians from where they were during the spring primaries, the secretary of state announced.

Our map shows where to vote if your polling place changed:
mississippifreepress.org/6460/officials…
Tap or hover over the pinpoints on this map of polling place changes to see the new location and address. A chart is also available. Infographics by @wspittman for @MSFreePress: mississippifreepress.org/6460/officials…
Please help us continue this work through election day and beyond with a one-time or recurring donation to non-profit journalism (with no paywalls!) at @MSFreePress.

We're just $8,000 away from our goal of $115k by October 31. Will you help us get there?formississippi.networkforgood.com/projects/87723…
NOTE: Mississippi Secretary of State @MichaelWatsonMS is NOT in charge of polling place changes.

Elections are ground up in MS, not central. These are local supervisor, commissioner & circuit clerk decisions. @MississippiSOS provides guidelines+training. mississippifreepress.org/6460/officials…
So if your MS polling place changed or you were wrongly purged from the voter rolls, call your local circuit clerks, election commissioners, and supervisors first before going to SOS.

Local officials are supposed to notify SOS of changes to polling places.

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BREAKING: Election officials in Madison County quietly rezoned 2,000 Black & Hispanic voters out of a majority white precinct into an already-majority Black one.

Now, 3,670 mostly non-white voters must share 25 parking spaces and five voting machines. mississippifreepress.org/6492/madison-c…
The Recreation Center Precinct is now overwhelmingly white and serves 2,470 voters with hundreds of parking spaces & 8-10 polling stations.

The Mark Apartments precinct is now overwhelmingly Black, with 3,670 voters, 25 parking spaces & 5 voting machines. mississippifreepress.org/6492/madison-c…
From 2016 in the same location these voters were rezoned:

“The City of Ridgeland, Mississippi, has unlawfully attempted to diminish its minority population by eliminating, through rezoning, at least five apartment complexes ... to curb 'Jackson’s rot.'" mississippifreepress.org/6492/madison-c…
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But in Barrett, they now see a path to "end abortion."
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On Sept. 4, Lou Engle said he began praying for the end of abortion: "If things don’t shift, we could be heading toward a civil war. But I believe God can shift this Supreme Court in these days.”

RBG died two weeks later. Engle calls it "prophetic."
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THREAD: The modern evangelical "religious right" began in opposition to Brown v. Board and school integration—not Roe v. Wade. That's why thousands of "Christian" segregation academies popped up all over the South in the 1960s and 1970s. 1/
When SCOTUS decided Roe in 1973, it wasn't an earth-shattering event for evangelicals—some of whose churches still offered doctrinal defenses of abortion.

The history of the modern religious right was later rewritten to start in '73—not '55. 2/
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Cases quickly spiked; MS reported the worst day since August. 2/
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On Thursday, Mississippi reported 1,322 new cases—the most in a single day since the summer peak on July 30.

It was the first time the state had reported 1,000 cases or more since the mask mandate took effect. MS reported 1,100 cases on Friday. 3/
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Forbes reported this story about Eric Trump in 2017, but most Americans have never heard of it.

There have been dozens of one-time reports about Trump kids, including Ivanka and Trump Jr, profiting off the presidency since 2017, but they all fizzle out.
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NEW: White Mississippians are now the primary drivers of #COVID19 infections & deaths.

It's a stunning reversal. Early on in the pandemic, Black Mississippians accounted for ~60-70% of cases & deaths.

Now, cases are growing 2x as fast among white people.
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