NEW: After a public records request and 100+ calls and emails, @_wspittman assembled a list of all polling places in the State of Mississippi (which the State itself does not publish).

You can search for your county's polling places here. #MSelex
mississippifreepress.org/28990/all-poll…
You can explore a list of the dozens of Mississippi voting precincts where election officials included no addresses, incomplete addresses, or erroneous information.

We've attempted to make these lists as accurate as possible, but it hasn't been easy.
mississippifreepress.org/28990/all-poll…
We've also reported that local Mississippi election officials have l changed at least 97 polling places since the 2020 election, with some moved, closed or newly opened.

That total includes 27 changes since the June primaries alone.
mississippifreepress.org/28941/mississi…
While we did our best to provide voters with an accurate list of polling places, we were dealing with often chaotic and uneven data.

It's best to check with your local election officials.

If you see any discrepancies or possible errors, let me know!
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Nov 8
IMPORTANT: We have yet *ANOTHER* unreported, unlisted polling place change in Mississippi—this time in Hinds County's Precinct 45.

Multiple voters told us they went to vote at their polling place this morning only to find it's no longer a polling place. 1/mississippifreepress.org/28941/mississi…
This a.m., @bluecanarykit told us she went to vote at McLeod Elementary, only to be told Precinct 45 had moved to St. Philip's Church.

I called Hinds Circuit Clerk's office at 11:21 am, where an official insisted Precinct 45 was still at McLeod. NOPE. 2/
mississippifreepress.org/28941/mississi…
Later, another voter told @MSFreePress they, too, were turned away at McLeod Elementary and told to vote at St. Philip's Episcopal Church.

I called the circuit clerk's office back at 12:29 p.m. An official again said McLeod was the correct location. 3/
mississippifreepress.org/28941/mississi…
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Nov 4
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.
mississippifreepress.org/28941/mississi…
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.
mississippifreepress.org/28941/mississi… screenshot shows color coded map of Mississippi with countie
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.
mississippifreepress.org/28941/mississi…
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Nov 4
Here's my biggest hangup with Mastodon: I don't want to be siloed into a server. I'm not just gay. I'm not just a journalist. I'm not just someone who enjoy music.

I like interacting with all of you in one big chaotic space and exchanging thoughts on all these things. screenshot of Mastodon shows sign up process asking to pick
And frankly, I don't want to just talk with people who are specifically interested in journalism, or music, or activism.

What I like about Twitter is how easy it is to meet such a broad array of people from all backgrounds who bring fresh thoughts to my own interests.
If I wanted a silo just with others who are interested primarily in my primary interests, I'd be using Reddit. Or an old school message board. I *sometimes* use those (mostly as a lurker), but the way Twitter works is much more in line with what I want from social media.
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Oct 29
If you're leaving Twitter, please don't forget the nonprofit newsrooms you follow here—like @MSFreePress.

Social media is important for funding newsrooms like ours bc we rely on donations from engaged readers—not advertising or subscription fees.

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Of course, if you're staying in Twitter, make sure you're following us here, too!
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Oct 26
“This water crisis has caused issues where we’ve lost kidney patients because the filters were damaged as a result of the water that ran through them," said Dr. Berthrone Mock-Muhammad with HeartPLUS Diagnostic Clinic in Jackson.

@aliyahveal reports:
mississippifreepress.org/28630/clean-sa…
NAACP President Derrick Johnson says the Jackson water crisis "was an intentionality by the state to starve the city of resources."

He claimed the election of first Black mayor in 1997 led to "an acceleration by the state to starve the city of resources.”
mississippifreepress.org/28630/clean-sa…
“The City of Jackson has had to issue close to 300 boiled-water notices over the last two years,” Johnson said. “The state had noticed, and they didn’t do anything about it. So all of the contaminants in the water, we know."
mississippifreepress.org/28630/clean-sa…
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Oct 20
BREAKING: The U.S. The Environmental Protection Agency has launched an investigation into the State of Mississippi for possible civil rights violations over the Jackson water crisis, the agency told the NAACP in a letter today.
mississippifreepress.org/28565/epa-inve…
The EPA says it will investigate whether Mississippi agencies "discriminated against the majority Black population of Jackson, Mississippi, on the basis of color, by intent or effect, in funding water infrastructure and treatment programs and activities."
mississippifreepress.org/28565/epa-inve…
The EPA's investigation is a response to an NAACP complaint which “alleges that MDH and MDEQ discriminated against the majority Black population of the City of Jackson on the basis of race in their funding of water infrastructure and treatment programs."
mississippifreepress.org/27798/naacp-fi…
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