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Mar 6 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
VOTER INFO ALERT 🚨 SecState Michael Watson says Mississippi voters need to check their voter registration status online "as often as you can."

The burden is on you to continually check your status in case you are wrongfully purged: msegov.com/sos/voter_regi…
This is a link to voter purge legislation currently pending in the Mississippi Legislature: billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2022/pdf/histo…
Gail Harrison Welch is an election commissioner in Jones County, Mississippi, which means she is responsible for voter purging there.

She worries about too many black Mississippians being registered to vote:
Watson himself attempted to overturn the results of the Republican primary for US Senate in Mississippi in 2014 by challenging black voters. mississippitoday.org/2019/07/23/mic… via @GanucheauAdam @MSTODAYnews

Watson then attempted to overturn a 2015 election for state senate also.
Watson has also expressed a desire for eligible Mississippi citizens who he disagrees with politically not to be registered to vote:

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THREAD: Not only did the Senate pass SB2120 unanimously to raise starting pay @MSHwyPatrol to $45,950, but every member signed on to cosponsor—it's so popular, @DelbertHosemann joked @SenDTSimmons about it.

But the House wants to amend SB2120 with a lower payscale instead. 👎 1/
To start, a bit of history...MHP's payscale was originally enacted in SB2500 (2015), sponsored by then-Sen. @TindellSean @DavidParkerSen and a few other senators.

SB2500 provided a starting salary of $38,000 when it took effect in January 2016. billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2015/pdf/histo… 2/
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THREAD: Why didn't Mississippi get a contract with Sea-Land Shipping? The Port of Gulfport supports 16% of Mississippi's GSP—sounds like something we should invest in!

But losing shipping contracts like this is a policy decision that we made on our own here in Mississippi. 1/
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But now, the canal can service "post-Panamax" ships with drafts up to ~50 feet. 2/
That's why the Port of Gulfport wanted to deepen the port from 36 feet to 45 feet as of 2015.

However, we voluntarily abandoned plans to obtain federal assistance to deepen Gulfport's harbor. 2/
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Jan 15
THREAD: Multiple Yazooans say the city is not providing ballots to absentee-by-mail voters ahead of its February 1 primary elections.

A citizen raised the issue at a city council meeting. There was no response. A subsequent response to the Herald does not address the issue. 1/
As set out in the @MississippiSOS training materials for municipal elections,* absentee ballot applications must be available 60 days before an election and absentee ballots must be available 45 days before an election.

*sos.ms.gov/content/docume… 2/
Since Yazoo City's primary elections are on February 1, absentee ballot applications should have been available by December 3, and absentee ballots should have been available by December 18. 3/
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Jan 14
A new abortion bill filed in the #MSleg would expand Mississippi's prohibitions on abortion to ban all abortions including abortions necessary to preserve the life of the mother.

See: billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2022/pdf/histo…
The bill would amend several a number of code sections, but I'll use the first section the bill would amend as an example.

The current text* of MS Code § 97-3-3 appears on the left, and the text as HB 580 would amend it appears on the right.

*casetext.com/statute/missis… ImageImage
Rep. Dan Eubanks, the bill's sponsor, has extensive opinions about vaccines in addition to his opinions about abortion.
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Jan 13
THREAD: I invite everyone to compare/contrast HB 437* with SB 2113** and congratulate the Senate for producing a superior bill.

As opposed to the House bill, the Senate bill does not:

☑️ Prohibit speech vaguely or overbroadly
☑️ Impose costly regulatory requirements 1/5 ImageImage
☑️ Threaten undue and draconian enforcement measures
☑️ Exclude protection for ethnicity, religion, or national origin

*billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2022/pdf/histo…
**billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2022/pdf/histo… 2/5
Now, I don't think SB 2113 prohibits much of anything that actually occurs in Mississippi's public schools—and to the extent it might, any speech that currently, actually occurs but that SB 2113 would ban may not be what SB 2113's proponents imagine. 3/5
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Speaker @PhilipGunnMS appointed Rep. Jim Beckett—the sponsor of the bill that stuck MSians with a billion-dollar bill for the Kemper coal boondoggle—to chair the elections committee.

What's more, Rep. Beckett now also chairs Mississippi's joint redistricting committee.
When Beckett passed a bill to mandate big, dragnet voter purges through the elections committee this year, he told @RepZSummers—a member of the committee—that he would not consider any amendments.

The bill passed the House and died in the Senate.
Last year, when Rep. Omeria Scott tried to introduce an amendment to open all polling locations for voters in last year's elections, to reduce the length of voting lines in November, Beckett made barely-lucid remarks opposing the amendment.
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