Automatic voter registration
Online voter registration
Pre-registration before turning 18
Number of days prior to election a voter must be registered is 15 days or less
Online voter registration closes 15 days or less before Election Day
Registration drives
Same day registration offered in all elections
Same day registration located at polling place
Same day registration offered only during early voting
All mail voting
In-person early voting
Amount of early voting days is higher than 7
Election day is a state holiday
No-excuse mail voting
12+ hours of open polls
Paid time off work to vote
Time off work to vote
Felons can vote after incarceration with completion of sentence
Felons can vote immediately after incarceration
Felons can vote while incarcerated
No ID required to vote
Mental competency not required to register
Non-photo ID required to vote
Photo-ID required to vote
Upcoming Elections
Voting Qualifications
Deadlines
More Information
Party registration not required to vote in primary elections. However, voters must vote for a single party for both the initial primary and any run offs resulting from that primary.
Some registered voters are eligible to vote by an absentee ballot because of age, health, work demands, temporary relocation for educational purposes, or their affiliation with the U.S. Armed Forces. Please check with your Circuit or Municipal Clerk to determine if you are entitled to vote by an absentee ballot and to learn the procedures for doing so. If you know you will vote by an absentee ballot, you may contact your Circuit or Municipal Clerk’s Office at any time within 45 days of the election.
You may vote by absentee ballot in Mississippi if:
- You will be away from your county on Election Day for any reason;
- You are a student, teacher, or administrator at a school whose studies or employment there necessitates your absence from your county on Election Day; or you are the spouse or dependent thereof;
- You have a temporary or permanent physical disability that renders you unable to vote in person without substantial hardship;
- You are the parent, spouse, or dependent of a person with a temporary or permanent physical disability who is hospitalized outside of their county of residence or more than fifty (50) miles away, and you (the parent, spouse or dependent) will be with that person on Election Day;
- You are sixty-five (65) years of age or older;
- You will be unable to vote in person because you are required to be at work on Election Day during the times at which the polls will be open;
- You are a member, spouse, or dependent of the congressional delegation;
- You are a disabled war veteran (or spouse or dependant of such a person) in a hospital;
- You are a member (or spouse or dependant of such a person) of the Merchant Marine or American Red Cross.
If you are voting in person in Mississippi, you must present one of the following forms of photo ID at the time you vote:
- A photo ID issued by the state of Mississippi
- A driver’s license issued by any state
- A current US passport
- A photo ID card issued by a branch, department, or entity of the State of Mississippi
- Any other photo ID issued by any branch, department, agency or entity of the United States government or any State government
- A current student ID card containing a photograph issued by an accredited institution of higher education in Mississippi
- A current US military ID card
- A valid tribal ID card containing a photograph
- A current and valid Mississippi license to carry a gun
- A Mississippi Voter Identification Card