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 explore a list of the dozens of Mississippi voting precincts where election officials included no addresses, incomplete addresses, or erroneous information.
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.
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.
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“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.
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…
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…