According to this story, proponents of an initiative to allow early voting have begun their drive to collect signatures, even though earlier this year the Mississippi Supreme Court invalidated the statewide initiative process. The proponents of the initiative hope that the legislature will repair the initiative process, either in a special session this year, or in the regular session in 2022. The legislature can fix the problem if it wishes to. It could pass a law saying that for the purposes of the congressional district distribution requirement for initiatives, the five districts that existed in the past are to be used. The state election code still has the boundaries of the five congressional districts, even though the state only has four congressional districts. The boundaries of the current four districts were drawn by a court in 2001.