Mississippi/Voting
Who is eligible to vote:
To be eligible to vote you must be:
- A resident of Mississippi for 30 days before the election
- At least 18 years old, or will be 18 by the next General Election
- Not declared mentally incompetent by a court
- Not convicted of a disenfranchising crime
If you are convicted of a crime you do not lose your voting rights if you were convicted or in another state. You will permanently lose your voting rights if you are convicted for one of the 23 crimes.
You must registered at least 30 days before the election that you will be voting in.
If you do not have a traditional resident you can submit a drawing of your location to your county clerk to identify where you are located.
You will need to provide your driver's license number or the last 4 digits of your Social Security number on your voter registration form. If you do not have a driver's license number or Social Security number and you are registering by mail for the first time, you must include another form of ID with your application.
Acceptable forms of ID are:
- A copy of current valid photo identification
- A copy of a current utility bill, bank statement, government check, paycheck, or other government document showing your name and address
Once you are registered, you generally remain registered indefinitely, unless you move or no longer meet one of the qualifications to vote.
ID Requirements
Acceptable forms of ID are:
- A driver's license
- Photo ID card issued by a branch, department or entity of the State of Mississippi
- US passport
- Government employee ID card
- Firearms license
- Student photo ID issued by an accredited Mississippi university, college or community/junior college
- US military ID
- Tribal photo ID
- Any other photo ID issued by any branch, department, agency or entity of the US government or any state government
- Mississippi Voter ID Card
Note: Expired IDs are valid so long as the expiration is not more than 10 years.
Early Voting
There is no early voting in Mississippi.
Absentee Voting
You must meet the following criteria in order to vote absentee voting in Mississippi.
- A disabled war veteran who is a patient in any hospital and a citizen of Mississippi
- A citizen of Mississippi temporarily residing outside the territorial limits of the United States and the District of Columbia
- An employee engaged in interstate transportation
- A student, teacher or administrator
- An employee engaged in offshore employment, or as an employee on a vessel or other watercraft
- An employee, businessperson, professional, tradesman or worker required to be over 50 miles away from the county of residence on election day due to employment
- A person with a temporary or permanent physical disability
- 65 years of age or older
- A parent, spouse or dependent of a person with a temporary or permanent disability hospitalized more than 50 miles from home county and with such person Election Day
- A member of a congressional delegation
If you want to request a ballot application can you do this 5 days before the election. Voted ballots must be postmarked for election day and can be received up to 5 days after the elections. You can also drop off our vote by mail ballot at your local election site. There are no drop off boxes.