NAACP deploys 23 election-protection staff in Mississippi

The NAACP has deployed 23 legal, policy and field staff to Mississippi as officials review provisional ballots and ballot-cure requests in a closely contested U.S. Senate race, aiming to help eligible votes be counted and certified. The effort builds on outreach that included 11 offices, visits to about 150,000 homes in 40 counties, 1.4 million text messages and roughly 700,000 mailed flyers. Separately, the NAACP and allied groups challenged the Trump administration’s plan to send federal personnel to polling sites, arguing that law enforcement presence could intimidate voters. A federal judge declined to block the deployment but limited the monitors: they cannot be armed, in uniform, identified as law enforcement or empowered to make arrests.