Mississippi Secretary of State crashes out over Experian voter data after election fiasco
Democracy Docket reports that Mississippi Secretary of State Michael Watson threatened, in now-deleted social media posts, to sue Experian after the company said its data was not intended for validating voter records, amid scrutiny of the state's use of that data after more than 230,000 voters were marked inactive and eligible voters were mistakenly purged. Watson's office signed a $50,000 Experian contract in December 2024, has since switched to IDI, and disputes Experian's account, while election commissioner Tonya Rivers says the inaccurate data left voters distrusting local officials.
