Mississippi Elections Chief: Professors Teach 'College Students To Hate Our Country'

Mississippi Secretary of State Michael Watson says he may be a victim of “a hatchet job” after the Mississippi Free Press reported on his warnings against registering “uninformed” and “woke college students” to vote.

“So think about all those woke college and university students now who will automatically be registered to vote whether they wanted to or not. … You’ve got an uninformed citizen who may not be prepared and ready to vote. Automatically, it’s forced on them: ‘Hey, go make a choice.’ And our country’s going to pay for those choices,” the state’s top election official said in a March 26 televised interview on WLOX.

The remarks initially drew little notice, but gained widespread attention from national news outlets, including a Washington Post editorial, after this publication reported on them on April 6.

“I think that those comments were probably taken out of context in a hatchet job in the sense that our job is to make sure that every Mississippian who is a United States citizens, who is a legal resident of our state, has the ability to vote,” the Associated Press reported Watson telling reporters on Wednesday.

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