Voters in 66 counties will go back to the polls on August 29th to cast their ballot in the runoff elections in their respective political party primary.
The Mississippi Secretary of State’s office has announced that in-person absentee voting for the Primary Election Runoffs will begin Saturday, August 19th and run through Saturday, August 26th.
The Primary Election Runoffs will be held on Tuesday, August 29th.
Circuit clerk offices will be open from 8:00 a.m. to noon for in-person absentee voting this Saturday and normal hours during the next week.
The SOS reminds voters that all mail-in absentee ballots must be postmarked by August 29 and received by county circuit clerk offices within five business days of August 29 in order to count.
Voters must vote in the political party primary runoff that they cast their ballot in on August 8th. However, if a voter did not vote on August 8th, they can vote in either party’s primary runoff election.
There will be a Primary Election Runoff for either a county or legislative office in 66 of the state’s 82 counties. Those counties are:
- Alcorn
- Attala
- Benton
- Bolivar
- Calhoun
- Carrol
- Choctaw
- Clarke
- Claiborne
- Clay
- Coahoma
- Copiah
- Covington
- Forrest
- George
- Greene
- Grenada
- Hancock
- Harrison
- Hinds
- Holmes
- Humphreys
- Itawamba
- Jackson
- Jasper
- Jefferson
- Jeff Davis
- Jones
- Lamar
- Lauderdale
- Lawrence
- Leake
- Lee
- Lincoln
- Lowndes
- Madison
- Marshall
- Neshoba
- Newton
- Noxubee
- Oktibbeha
- Pearl River
- Perry
- Pike
- Pontotoc
- Prentiss
- Quitman
- Rankin
- Scott
- Sharkey
- Simpson
- Smith
- Stone
- Sunflower
- Tallahatchie
- Tate
- Tippah
- Tishomingo
- Union
- Walthall
- Washington
- Wayne
- Webster
- Wilkinson
- Winston
- Yazoo
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