“Voter Voices” is a series of Mississippians sharing their thoughts on voting rights, the state’s history of voter suppression and the new gerrymandering push embroiling Mississippi, the South and the nation.
Since 1988, Bill Gray has been a poll watcher for various Mississippi political campaigns.
During that time, he has seen many Mississippians blocked from voting because they went to the wrong precinct. Sometimes this happened because the precinct had changed, and voters failed to receive notices. Sometimes voters missed the notices. Sometimes voters received incorrect notices.
Bill Gray Credit: Special to Mississippi TodayIn 2019, he worked as a poll watcher for the Jim Hood campaign for governor. While working at a Rankin County voting precinct, a man walked in wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat.
Gray told the poll manager that the man couldn’t wear a hat like that, and the manager responded that the hat wasn’t political, he said. “And I said, ‘Yeah, it is.’ And so he gets the Rankin County election commissioner out there. Then he and I go at it because he’s telling me it’s not political.”
He questioned why the secretary of state is now using Experian credit data — and nothing else — to clean up Mississippi’s voting rolls.
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He saw the problem with this approach firsthand after someone stole his credit information.
“They were showing me as previously living in Chicago,” he said. “It took me four or five years to finally clear it up.”
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