Each County offers early/absentee in-person voting at the Circuit Clerk's office in (or next to) the County Courthouse on the following days BEFORE, but not ON, Election Day, November 7th:
Monday - Friday: regular business hours, beginning September 25th (except November 6th)
Saturday, October 28th: 8:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Saturday, November 4th: 8:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
** If you do not absentee vote, you can still vote in person at your polling station on November 7th **
Under Mississippi law, the following categories of people are entitled to vote early/absentee in-person:
- Any person who is sixty-five (65) years of age or older.
- Any qualified elector who is away from his or her county of residence on election day for any reason.
- Any qualified elector who will be unable to vote in person because he or she is required to be at work on election day during the times at which the polls will be open.
- Any qualified elector who is a bona fide student, teacher or administrator at any college, university, junior college, high, junior high, or elementary grade school whose studies or employment at such institution necessitates his or her absence from the county of his or her voting residence on the date of any primary, general or special election, or the spouse and dependents of that student, teacher or administrator if such spouse or dependent(s) maintain a common domicile, outside of the county of his or her voting residence, with such student, teacher or administrator.
- Any person who has a temporary or permanent physical disability and who, because of such disability, is unable to vote in person without substantial hardship to himself, herself or others, or whose attendance at the voting place could reasonably cause danger to himself, herself or others.
- The parent, spouse or dependent of a person with a temporary or permanent physical disability who is hospitalized outside of his or her county of residence or more than fifty (50) miles distant from his or her residence, if the parent, spouse or dependent will be with such person on election day.
ELECTORS ENTITLED TO VOTE ABSENTEE VIA MAIL-IN BALLOT
See here for more details on the process for mail-in absentee voting (it is rather complex)
- Any person who is temporarily residing outside of their county of residence, and the ballot must be mailed to an address outside the county.
- Any person who has a temporary or permanent physical disability and who, because of such disability, is unable to vote in person without substantial hardship to himself, herself or others, or whose attendance at the voting place could reasonably cause danger to himself, herself or others.
- The parent, spouse or dependent of a person with a temporary or permanent physical disability who is hospitalized outside of his or her county of residence or more than fifty (50) miles distant from his or her residence, if the parent, spouse or dependent will be with such person on election day.
- Any person who is sixty-five (65) years of age or older.