Lawmakers’ revision of Mississippi’s legislative redistricting proposal gained approval from a panel of three federal judges earlier this month after months of legal battles, triggering the state to host 15 special elections for legislative seats this November.
Gov. Tate Reeves, Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch and Mississippi Secretary of State Michael Watson make up the Mississippi Board of Election Commissioners, which wrote the newly approved Mississippi Senate District plan and served as defendants in the lawsuit. They had to redraw the Senate map because the three-judge panel rejected the Legislature’s proposed redistricting plans for the Senate on April 15.
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