During the 2020 Presidential election, voter turnout in Mississippi was about 60%... which made it the 6th worst state in the country for voter turnout during this election!

 

Mississippi has a tremendously long history of disenfranchisement through voter suppression tactics, including:

• No provision for no-excuse absentee voting.

• An absence of universal early-absence voting.

• A lack of online registration.

• Last minute moving of polling precincts.

• Stricter voter I.D. laws.

• Extreme felony disenfranchisement laws.

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Additionally, Mississippi has been ranked 48th in the country for women's representation.

Here are a few facts that prove this severe underrepresentation of women:

• Only 14.4% of the state legislators were women in 2023. 

• There has never been a female governor. 

• Mississippi has the highest infant and maternal mortality and poverty rates in the country.

• Abortion is illegal in nearly all instances.