JACKSON, Miss. – As part of the Secretary of State's Check Your Charity campaign, our office has released the 2024 Report on Charitable Organizations. The annual report details items such as the total revenue, fundraising expenses, and charitable purpose expenses of Mississippi charities.
JACKSON, Miss. – Pursuant to Miss. Code Ann. § 27-101-1, the FY2024 Annual Report of the Secretary of State's Office has been published and is available on the agency website.
JACKSON, Miss. – Secretary of State Michael Watson reveals the 2024-2028 Mississippi Official & Statistical Register, better known as the Blue Book.
JACKSON, Miss. – Candidates may begin qualifying today, January 2, 2025, for the 2025 municipal elections.
JACKSON, Miss. – Mississippi Secretary of State Michael Watson is pleased to announce a Mississippi Businesses Against Trafficking (MBAT) Summit to be held on Friday, January 24 from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. on the campus of the University of Mississippi.
JACKSON, Miss. – Periodic campaign finance reports for contributions and expenditures for the period of October 1, 2024, through December 31, 2024, are due by 5:00 p.m. on Friday, January 10, 2025.
Reports may be submitted via:
JACKSON, Miss. – Mississippi Secretary Of State Michael Watson and the Secretary of State's Securities Division, a member of the North American Securities Administrators Association (NASAA), have joined a $17 million settlement with Edward D. Jones & Co., L.P. (Edward Jones) resulting from an investigation into the broker-dealer’s supervision of customers paying front-load commissions for Class A mutual fund shares in light of later moving brokerage assets into fee-based investment advisory accounts.
JACKSON, Miss. – As a reminder, Mississippians need to be aware of upcoming important dates and deadlines.
Qualifying Deadline
The qualifying deadline for party primary and independent candidates for municipal offices is Friday, January 31, 2025, at 5:00 p.m.
JACKSON, Miss. – Secretary of State Michael Watson joined a taskforce of state securities regulators and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in a $106 million settlement with Vanguard Marketing Corporation (VMC) and The Vanguard Group, Inc. (Vanguard) for failing to supervise certain registered persons and failing to disclose potential tax consequences to investors following a change in investment minimums for certain target date retirement funds.
JACKSON, Miss. – Absentee ballot applications are now available in municipal clerks' offices for the Municipal Primary Election on April 1, 2025. Absentee ballots will be available starting February 18, 2025.