Posted: 6:20 PM Saturday is the final day to register to vote to participate in the Mar. 13 Mississippi primaries.

Updated: 10:21 PM The deadline is approaching for new voters to be registered for the presidential primary in Mississippi.

Updated: 8:22 PM By the time the presidential race makes it to Mississippi and Alabama in two months, the GOP race could already be a virtual done deal. But local election officials say they hope not.

Posted: 3:06 PM A US Representative from Mississippi got some last minute opposition in the 2012 election

Updated: 11:57 PM While in Meridian this week, the Governor was asked about a potential Vice Presidential bid

Posted: 10:48 PM Mississippi Republicans are claiming the majority following Tuesday's election, but Democrats are not willing to concede yet

Updated: 7:37 PM District 83 candidate, Gary Houston, a Democrat, thanked his supporters during a news conference Wednesday. Houston also said he's concerned about the shortage of electronic voting machines at some precincts.

Posted: 11:00 AM Control of the Mississippi House of Representatives remained in question Wednesday as ballot counting continued in tight races.

Updated: 9:14 PM Gov. Haley Barbour said supporters should have brought the issue of personhood to the state legislature, where flaws in language could have been corrected.

Updated: 9:12 PM There was controversy during Thursday's elections in Lauderdale County, long lines and complaints of not enough voting machines.

Updated: 3:16 PM Republicans in Mississippi are declaring victory in Tuesday's elections.

Posted: 2:41 PM Abortion opponents in the Alabama Legislature are not being deterred by the defeat of a constitutional amendment in Mississippi that said life begins at fertilization.

Posted: 12:30 PM Kemper County officials are trying to determine how many people voted in the House District 42 race when they should have voted in District 43.

Updated: 11:30 AM Republicans make a push to gain the first majority in the Mississippi House of Representatives since Reconstruction..

Updated: 11:53 AM Multiple precincts in Lauderdale County had long waits as voters flocked to the polls Tuesday.

Posted: 10:30 PM Mississippi voters have passed a constitutional amendment to require that voters present government-issued identification at the polls.

Posted: 10:24 PM Mississippi voters Tuesday approved a constitutional amendment aimed at limiting governments' ability to seize property and hand it over to private developers.

Posted: 10:17 PM The Associated Press declared Phil Bryant the winner of the Mississippi governor's race.

Posted: 10:07 PM Mississippi voters Tuesday defeated a ballot initiative that would've declared life begins at fertilization.

Updated: 10:38 AM Some Mississippi races were called early by The Associated Press.

Updated: 8:53 PM An initiative to amend the Mississippi Constitution to say that life, and human rights, begin at fertilization was on the general election ballot. Elections officials say this issue, more than any other, brought bigger crowds to the polls Tuesday.

Updated: 12:46 PM Mississippi voters are preparing to elect a new governor, fill all 174 legislative seats and decide three ballot initiatives, including one that could provoke a national legal battle over abortion.

Updated: 11:22 PM Tuesday elections in Mississippi will cover both local and statewide offices.

Posted: 2:54 PM Mississippi voters with questions for election officials Tuesday may send text-message queries to the Secretary of State's Office.

Posted: 10:24 AM Mississippians are voting Tuesday on three ballot initiatives that propose amendments to the state constitution.