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Voter Photo ID: Voters are required to show photo identification at the polls. A voter without an acceptable form of photo identification is entitled to cast an affidavit ballot. An affidavit ballot may be counted if the voter provides an acceptable form of photo identification to the Circuit Clerk’s Office within five business days after the election. For more information, visit www.msvoterID.ms.gov.
NYT – In Mississippi, a rare opportunity for Republican women
It’s been a hard year for Republican women. President Trump was elected with the widest gender gap in polling history, and the surge among female candidates has been much higher among Democrats, many of whom are campaigning against what they see as the president’s misogyny. Some strategists have advised Republican women to sit this year out.
No woman has ever been elected to Congress from Mississippi — Cindy Hyde-Smith became the first woman to represent the state when she was appointed to replace Sen. Thad Cochran in April, and she will run against three men to keep the seat in November. (Her appointment left Vermont as the only state that has never had a female representative in Congress.)
Democrats like Rep. Bennie Thompson call for investigation into Hurricane Maria’s Puerto Rico death toll
In December, Rep. Nydia Velázquez, D-N.Y., and Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., sent a letter to the Government Accountability Office asking it to assess the death toll to make sure it hadn’t been “artificially suppressed.” Velázquez’s office told Yahoo News that it is continuing to have conversations with the GAO about the timetable for the report. The government of Puerto Rico has also commissioned a report from George Washington University that will provide another estimate of the death toll, and draft results are expected this summer.
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