"Fake news." Such is what Mississippi Secretary of State Michael Watson called reports his office classified 230,000 voters as inactive. Mr. Watson made the comments as he provided an update on the Senate election results this afternoon.
* 77 of 82 counties uploaded their uncertified results.
* 23 counties uploaded their certified results.
* The deadline for certified results is Friday
* There are still 2,300 or so absentee ballots "that are out there."
* 18,915 affidavit ballots have been processed (accepted or rejected). They will appear in the certified results.
* Mr. Watson said media reports that 230,000 voters were removed from the rolls is "fake news." The Secretary of State said the statewide voting system (SEMS) has four categories of voters: active, pending, inactive, and purged. If a name is in one of those categories, it is still on the voter roll.
Mr. Watson doubled down, saying the claim 230,000 were removed is "a lie."
* The Secretary of State gets voter address information from the U.S. Postal Service, Social Security, National Change of Address information, and Experian. His office in turn "pushes it down" to the Election Commissions who are supposed to investigate further. One source told JJ today what actually happens is many Election Commissions are just plain lazy and rubber stamp the list of questionable addresses without investigating as they are supposed to do.
* The Secretary of State can not purge anyone from the voter rolls or classify them as inactive. Such duties are handled by the Election Commissioners.
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