Ramirez, which the 5th Circuit Court said "reaffirmed a body of constitutional law expressly permitting States to enact felon disenfranchisement ... that Mississippi's voting ban for certain ...
Dennis, all stating a lifetime voting ban is unconstitutional ... you are a nobody,' felon tells Mississippi lawmakers "Go and convince the State legislatures," Judge Edith Jones wrote.
The panel had said Mississippi’s ban on voting after certain crimes violates the U.S. Constitution’s prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment. In the ruling Thursday, dissenting judges ...
Who Can and Can’t Vote in Mississippi: A Guide to the State’s Lifetime Voting Ban This guide offers details about the state’s disenfranchisement laws and how you may still be able to vote from jail, ...
The Mississippi Secretary of State’s website voting information page notes that absentee voting is available in person, at the circuit clerk’s office in the county of the voter’s residence ...
VotingWorks, a nonprofit company founded in 2018, first unveiled some of its voting machines in five counties in the Magnolia State, making rural Mississippi areas some of the first in the nation ...
Any person who knowingly and willfully violates a burning ban is guilty of a misdemeanor. Mississippi Forestry Commission ...
USA Today: Elections and politics suddenly became more real to Aaron Pettes this summer when he learned that for the first time in his life he was eligible to vote. The 44-year-old former felon in ...
The panel had said Mississippi’s ban on voting after certain crimes violates the U.S. Constitution’s prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment. In the ruling Thursday, dissenting judges wrote ...
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A federal appeals court has ruled that Mississippi legislators, not the courts, must decide whether to change the state's practice of stripping voting rights from people ...