. @ajhedrich and I have spent the last few months looking up voting info for a number of states and I have to say that Mississippi is by far the worst state for voter suppression. Many states do it but I haven’t seen anything like MS yet. I knew it was bad but holy shit.

The first thing that raised a giant flag was that if you are eligible to vote by mail, (which is hard on its own) you legally can't return your ballot in person to an election office. This is the only state that I’ve seen this for so far. This is the rule for MS:

FAQ pages on Secretary of State sites tend to run super long and have answers to a long list of questions to help with specific issues. It’s usually the last stop to find an answer before having to call the SOS office. This is MS's FAQ page:

They even have the audacity to add “Back to Top” buttons even though it takes less than one scroll to get to the top from any point in the page.

And most (3/5) of the answers on the FAQ just tell voters to contact their county Circuit Clerk. Though these are not that hard of questions to answer, MS purposefully doesn’t put the resources on their site to add an extra step for anyone looking for basic info.

MS also has most of its elections scheduled for non-presidential or midterm years. This is common in states trying to suppress voting but just looking at this calendar you can see how explicit MS is about making sure as few people as possible vote for these elections

And all these things are just things that make MS worse than most other states. Too many states add unnecessary hoops to jump through that do nothing to increase voter security but instead serve solely to keep people from voting or to invalidate their vote.