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Mississippi made thousands of valid voters inactive ahead of critical Senate race (www.democracydocket.com)
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Thousands of Mississippians like Lowery — whose votes may decide a critical U.S. Senate race, in which Democrat Scott Colom holds a slim lead over Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R) — are still waiting to have their ballots counted. That’s because of the Republican secretary of state’s contract with Experian, a global credit reporting agency whose data has been described as riddled with errors, that threw thousands of voters into “inactive” status in the months leading up to the general election.

In highly populated DeSoto County, over 15,000 people were removed as active voters in the time between the primary and general election, according to an analysis from Mississippi Today with data from the state.

Other counties with high rates of inactive voters include Jackson with 14,063 and Harrison, where Lowery votes, with 28,921. For many of these voters showing up to the polls on Tuesday, this was a shock.

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[–] [S] 20 points 4 days ago

Wildly, the article leads with their subject checking the night before and still getting ratfucked.

Clint Lowery left work around 4 p.m. in Alabama to make sure he would have enough time to get back home to Harrison County, Mississippi to vote before polls closed. 

He checked the secretary of state’s website the night before to look up his polling place. He checked his voter registration status, too.

When he arrived at St. Martin Community Center, Lowery waited in line for hours before he made it inside, where he described around 100 people snaking through the building. Then Lowery, a registered Mississippi voter of five years, was told he wasn’t on the precinct’s voting list.

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