They’re still counting ballots in Mississippi, and here’s why: ‘Red flag’: Voter inactivations surge in midterms since secretary of state adopted unverified Experian data to clean voter rolls:
Voter inactivations surged ahead of Tuesday’s midterm elections, the first since the Mississippi Secretary of State’s Office authorized unverified data from the credit bureau Experian for counties to use statewide when cleaning their voter rolls.
A Mississippi Today analysis of voter data from the secretary of state found that in the eight months since the March primaries, inactivations more than doubled in some jurisdictions, leaving up to 1 in 5 voters in counties such as DeSoto and Wilkinson one step closer to being purged from the rolls. Over 230,000 voters statewide — or about 1 in 9 — are now inactive ahead of Election Day as Mississippi stares at an increasingly competitive U.S. Senate race between Republican incumbent Cindy Hyde-Smith and Democratic challenger Scott Colom.
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