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A new Mississippi law clarifies that some people held in jail or prison may vote in elections, but widespread confusion and a tangle of paperwork will likely continue to block many of them from casting ballots.
For some people with felony convictions, Mississippi is, legally speaking, among the most lenient states around ballot access, with some felony convictions never triggering a loss of voting rights at all.
For other people, Mississippi 's disenfranchisement system is one of the nation's most punitive and unforgiving.
At least four suffrage restoration bills passed since 1997 were for people who didn’t actually need their voting rights restored.
One man was convicted of burglary in 1978 and committed no further crimes, only for the Legislature to approve an unneeded bill on his behalf in 2006 .
One person had a bill introduced twice on their behalf, even though their felony conviction did not occur in Mississippi but in another state.
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