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The policies governing voter participation are enacted and enforced primarily at the state level. These policies, which include voter identification requirements, early on voting provisions, online voter registration systems, and more, dictate the conditions nether which American citizens cast their ballots in their corresponding states.

This article includes the following information about voting policies in Mississippi:

  • Voter registration details, including deadlines and eligibility requirements.
  • In-person voting details, including identification requirements, poll times, and early voting provisions.
  • Absentee/mail-in voting deadlines and rules.
  • Details about bedevilled felons' voting rights.
  • Contact data election agencies.
  • Summaries of noteworthy policy-related events.

Come across Election administration in Mississippi for more boosted information about election administration in the state, including voter list maintenance policies, provisional ballot rules, and postal service-ballot auditing practices.

Voter registration

The table below displays voter registration data specific to Mississippi'due south 2022 chief election.

Eligibility and registration details

To register to vote in Mississippi, ane must be a United States citizen and a resident of Mississippi. A voter must be at least 18 years old by Election Twenty-four hour period.[1]

Registration must be completed xxx days prior to the election. One may register to vote past post and in person.[1]

In-person voting

The table beneath displays in-person voting information specific to Mississippi's 2022 master election.

Poll times

Run across also: State poll opening and closing times

All polling places in Mississippi are open from vii:00 a.thou. to seven:00 p.one thousand. Central Fourth dimension. An individual who is in line at the time polls shut must exist allowed to vote.[two]

Voter identification

Run into also: Voter identification laws by state

Mississippi requires voters to present photo identification while voting.[3]

The following listing of accepted ID was current as of November 2019. Click here for the Mississippi Secertary of State folio on accustomed ID to ensure you have the virtually electric current information.[4]

  • Driver's license
  • Photo ID card issued by a co-operative, department, or entity of the State of Mississippi
  • United states passport
  • Government employee ID bill of fare
  • Firearms license
  • Student photo ID issued by an accredited Mississippi university, college, or community/junior college
  • Usa armed forces ID
  • Tribal photo ID
  • Any other photo ID issued by any branch, section, agency or entity of the United States government or any state government
  • Mississippi Voter Identification Menu

Voters can obtain a Mississippi Voter Identification Card for costless at whatever excursion clerk's office in Mississippi. Voters tin can apply for a bill of fare during normal business hours (8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.chiliad.). Voters who need transportation to a excursion clerk's office tin phone call the secretary of state's voter ID toll-free hotline at ane-844-678-6837, visit world wide web.MSVoterID.ms.gov, or email MSVoterID@sos.ms.gov to schedule a ride. Transportation is gratuitous of charge.[v] [6]

Early voting

See as well: Early voting

Mississippi does not allow early on voting. In-person absentee voting is permitted. Encounter here for more information near absentee voting requirements.[7]

Absentee/mail-in voting

Meet also: Absentee/mail-in voting

The tabular array below displays absentee voting data specific to Mississippi's 2022 primary election.

A voter in Mississippi tin vote absentee in an election if he or she cannot make it to the polls on Election Day for one of the following reasons:[8]

  1. The voter will be outside of his or her abode canton on Election Day.
  2. The voter is a "student, teacher or ambassador at a schoolhouse whose studies or employment at that place necessitates" absenteeism from the voter'southward home county on Election Day (spouses and dependents of such voters are likewise eligible to vote absentee)
  3. The voter is disabled and therefore unable to vote in person
  4. The voter is the parent, spouse or dependent of a disabled person "who is hospitalized outside of [his or her] canton of residence or more than 50 miles away" and will exist with the disabled person on Election Twenty-four hour period
  5. The voter is 65 years old or older
  6. The voter is required to exist at work on Ballot Day during polling hours

There is no specific borderline for applying for an absentee ballot. The election must exist returned past five p.m. on the twenty-four hour period earlier the ballot.[8]

Convicted felons' voting rights

Come across also: Voting rights for convicted felons

In Mississippi, felony convictions of murder, rape, bribery, theft, arson, obtaining coin or goods under false pretense, perjury, forgery, embezzlement or bigamy disqualify the individuals who commit these crimes from voting, according to Article ii, Section 241 of the state's constitution. Those convicted of a felony law-breaking non enumerated in Mississippi's constitution automatically regain voting rights upon completion of their sentence.

For disqualifying felonies, individuals tin can regain their voting rights by receiving a pardon from the governor or by a two-thirds vote of both houses of the Mississippi legislature, as specified by Article 12, Section 253 of the state's constitution. Click hither for more information on disenfranchising crimes.

Voting rights for convicted felons vary from state to state. In the bulk of states, convicted felons cannot vote while they are incarcerated simply may regain the right to vote upon release from prison or at some point thereafter.[9] [x] [11]

Election agencies

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See besides: State election agencies

Individuals seeking additional information about voting provisions in Mississippi can contact the following land and federal agencies.

Mississippi Secretarial assistant of State

Heber Ladner Edifice, 401 Mississippi Street
Jackson, Mississippi 39201-1004
Phone: 601-576-2550
Fax: 404-651-9531

U.S. Election Aid Commission

1335 East Due west Highway, Suite 4300
Silver Spring, Maryland 20910
Phone: 866-747-1471

Noteworthy events

2018

On June 22, 2018, the Lawyers' Committee for Ceremonious Rights Under Law sent a letter to Delbert Hosemann, Mississippi's secretary of state, alleging that the state's voter registration deadline for federal primary runoff and special elections violated Section eight of the National Voter Registration Deed of 1993. That law requires that each state "ensure that any eligible bidder is registered to vote in an election," provided that he or she has registered "not later on than the lesser of 30 days, or the flow provided past Land law, before the date of the election." In the past, Mississippi officials had construed land statutes to restrict participation in federal primary runoff and special elections to those voters who registered no more than xxx days prior to the preceding regular election. The Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law asked that the land "immediately voluntarily undertake remedial action to bring the Country into compliance with Department eight of the NVRA, and so that all eligible citizens volition be able to participate in futurity runoff elections for federal offices in Mississippi including, if necessary, the November 27, 2018, runoff ballot for United states Senate."[12] [13]

On July 12, 2018, Harold Pizzetta, Mississippi's banana attorney general, issued a response to the complaint on Hosemann's behalf, noting that, moving forward, whatever voter who registered at least 30 days in accelerate of a federal primary runoff or special ballot would exist eligible to vote in that election. This placed the registration deadline for the November 27, 2018, runoff ballot in Mississippi on October 29, 2018.[14]

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See also

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External links

  • Mississippi Secretary of Official state election website

Footnotes

  1. ↑ ane.0 1.1 Department of Motor Vehicles, "Mississippi Voter Registration," accessed Oct iv, 2019
  2. ↑ Mississippi Secretary of State, "Mississippi Poll Manager Guide," accessed October 17, 2019
  3. ↑ Mississippi Secretarial assistant of State, "Mississippi Voter ID," accessed October 4, 2019
  4. ↑ Mississippi Secretary of State, "Mississippi Voter ID," accessed Oct four, 2019
  5. ↑ Mississippi Secretarial assistant of State, "What if I don't have any of the acceptable forms of photo ID?" accessed October 4, 2019
  6. ↑ Mississippi Secretary of State, "Mississippi Voter ID What you demand to know," accessed October four, 2019
  7. ↑ Jerrick Adams, "E-mail communication with Mississippi Secretary of State," September eight, 2016
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Long Distance Voter, "Mississippi Absentee Ballot Guide," accessed Dec xix, 2013
  9. ↑ Delbert Hoseman Secretary of Land, "Y'all Vote," accessed October xix, 2019
  10. ↑ National Conference of State Legislatures, "Felon Voting Rights," accessed July fifteen, 2014
  11. ↑ American Ceremonious Liberties Union, "State Criminal Re-enfranchisement Laws," accessed September 13, 2019
  12. ↑ Lawyers' Commission for Civil Rights Under Law," Re: Notice of non-compliance with the National Voter Registration Act of 1993," June 22, 2018
  13. ↑ Hastings Tribune, "Mississippi updating voter registration deadline for runoffs," July 13, 2018
  14. ↑ State of Mississippi Chaser Full general, Civil Litigation Division, "Re: Detect of non-compliance with the National Voter Registration Act of 1993," July 12, 2018

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