Mississippi elections chief regrets word choice about "woke" young voters

“Michael Watson told Dave (Elliot) he probably could have found a better way to word his thoughts about the automatic registration idea,” WLOX anchor Alison Spann reported in a news broadcast today. Elliot, a WLOX anchor, interviewed Watson about possible voting reforms under the Biden administration. During the appearance, Watson incorrectly claimed that Biden was “basically employing all the federal agencies, universities and colleges to register as many folks as they can via this automatic voter registration.” Biden’s order does not mention colleges, universities or automatic registration. “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,” Watson said.