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Mississippi Secretary of State Michael Watson speaks in his office in Jackson, Miss., on Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2023. Watson, a Republican, is seeking a second term as the state's top elections official, and he faces Democrat Ty Pinkins in the Nov. 7, 2023, general election. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Mississippi should revive process to put issues on ballot, Secretary of State Watson says

By Emily Wagster Pettus - Associated Press

Secretary of State Michael Watson speaks to members of the Senate and House Elections Committees during a joint hearing at the Mississippi State Capitol in Jackson, Miss., Wednesday, June 3, 2020. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Campaign attire banned at Mississippi polls, masks suggested

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS - Associated Press

Ronnie Pollard, a former lieutenant with the DeSoto County Sheriff's Department, explains why he is in support of Initiative 65, a strictly regulated medical marijuana program, that is on the general election ballot this November, during a Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2020 news conference in Jackson, Miss. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Mississippi marijuana ballot dispute: No ruling before vote

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS - Associated Press

Secretary of State Michael Watson speaks to members of the Senate and House Elections Committees during a joint hearing at the Mississippi State Capitol in Jackson, Miss., Wednesday, June 3, 2020. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Mississippi elections chief opposes more mail-in voting

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS - Associated Press

Watson chooses Marine police chief as new chief of staff

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Republican Sen. Michael Watson of Pascagoula, left, listens as Democratic former Hattiesburg Mayor Johnny DuPree, responds to a question at a forum sponsored by Mississippi State University's Stennis Institute of Government and the Capitol Press Corps, Monday, Oct. 21, 2019, in Jackson, Miss. Both men are candidates for secretary of state. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Secretary of state nominees differ on expanding early voting

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS - Associated Press

Analysis: Mississippi has options for new secretary of state

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS - Associated Press

Transgender group’s birth certificate suit advances in Ohio

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FILE - In this Jan. 28, 2019 file photo, Southern District Public Service Commissioner Sam Britton of Laurel, explains his reasons for running for Republican nomination for secretary of state in Mississippi, in Jackson, Miss. Britton faces Sen. Michael Watson of Pascagoula. Current Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann is running for lieutenant governor. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)

GOP race for Mississippi secretary of state grows pointed

By JEFF AMY - Associated Press

FILE - This undated file photo provided by Franklin County Sheriffís Office shows Abdirahman Sheik Mohamud. Mohamud, of Columbus, accused in April 2015 of receiving training on weapons, combat and tactics in Syria, and then returning to the U.S. with a plan to attack a military base or a prison. A federal judge on Friday, Jan. 19, 2018, is scheduled to sentence the Ohio man who plotted to kill military members in the U.S. following a delay in the case when a previous judge withdrew. Mohamud, who was born in Somalia but came to the U.S. as a child, was arrested in 2015 and pleaded guilty to plotting those attacks after becoming radicalized in Syria. The attacks were never carried out. (AP Photo/Franklin County Sheriffís Office via AP, File)

Man apologizes, sentenced to 22 years for US terrorism plot

By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS - Associated Press

Suspect arrested in deaths of California pastor, 2 grandsons

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Ohio man pleads guilty in teen’s beating death

By AMANDA LEE MYERS - Associated Press

Judge won’t order Libertarian back on Ohio ballot

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FILE - This April 26, 2013, photo shows Ohio Republican Party chairman Matt Borges, left, waiting to speak at his nomination in Columbus, Ohio. A federal judge on Tuesday, March 18, 2014, weighed testimony from Borges that his party was not behind recent challenges to a Libertarian candidate trying to run against Republican Gov. John Kasich. (AP Photo/Julie Carr Smyth, File)

Chair says Ohio GOP not thwarting Libertarians

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