Secretary of State Hilbert Hosemann issued the following statement yesterday.
As
of 8 a.m. today, 58,070 Mississippians have requested absentee ballots
for the upcoming November 5 General Election, and 51,318 absentee
ballots have been received
back to the Circuit Clerks’ Offices.
More
than 1.9 million Mississippians are registered to vote in the upcoming
election. Census data estimates the State’s eligible voting age
population to be about
2.2 million.
Circuit
Clerks’ Offices must be in receipt of absentee ballots returned by mail
by 5 p.m. today. For military and overseas voters,
absentee ballots must be received by 7 p.m. on Tuesday, November 5.
Polls
are open on Election Day from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Any voter in line at 7
p.m. is entitled to cast a ballot. Voters can find their polling place
and a sample
ballot by visiting the Secretary of State’s Polling Place Locator.
Kingfish note: Only 37,000 absentee votes were cast in 2015.
17 comments:
1.9 million voters registered out of the estimated 2.2 million eligible.
Stick a fork in Tater, he is done. Those numbers are boisted by state employees turning out to defend their jobs and hard earned benefits.
Lifelong Republican. I plan to vote for as many Democrats as I see at the top of the ballot. (1) The Republicans are ignorant and mean-spirited in denying access to care (Medicaid expansion). (2) Many of them are happy to cram "God" down our throats by putting non-sense (offensive to many) on license plates. (3) Split government is better for all of us.
Stick a fork in Tater, he is done. Those numbers are boisted by state employees turning out to defend their jobs and "hard earned" benefits.
Hard earned? I've had my laugh for the day.
How many of those voting absentee are doing so from the graveyard? Does anyone check this stuff??
Years ago, I moved from Harrison County to Madison County, I voted absentee because I knew I was traveling during the week when the election was held - for kicks I went to my old polling place in Biloxi and my name was still on the voter rolls. I showed the lady my license with my new address and she asked if I still wanted to vote. What in the actual fuck? I've only lived in Mississippi for about 10 years, but it raises several questions about election integrity - with a presidential election coming in less than a year, I sure hope the state gets its collective shit together.
Extrapolative nonsense @10:50, complete nonsense.
@11:45
Tell that to the MDOT employees who risk their lives during storms.
Tell that to the Law Enforcement protecting your sleeping family.
Tell that to the teachers who make it through the day without smacking your spoiled idiot offspring.
Tell that to the working MDOC guard forced to collect welfare but turns down bribes to smuggle contraband.
Shame on you.
@10:50
I see you havent worked in state government.
@11:53
Well its too bad the federal courts keep that from happening. I remember voting for voter id back around 2012-14. Fed courts took that out to pasture.
10:50 makes an interesting point. What if the state's largest employer became the state's largest voting bloc?
What if all you need to do is promise pay raises and benefits to state employees and you guarantee a win?
And the majority qualified for absentee ballots because of....wait for it... morbid obesity.
Sad.
I was happy to discover the clerks office opened on Saturday to allow voting. If this continues, I doubt I’ll ever vote on Election Day again.
It is entirely to easy to vote. Every time some politician/legislature makes it easier to vote the door is opened to more voter fraud. Voting should not be difficult, but it is getting entirely too convenient.
I know of three different churches in Canton that instruct their congregation to file for absentee ballots. Then, they bring their absentee ballots (when recieved) to church and are told to leave them blank. The member signs and the church witnesses the signature. The church then votes as a congregation on who they want to elect and every ballot gets filled out in that way (Maybe?). I've seen it first hand. That is some backwards stuff... and I know it happens in more places than just Canton. It might not affect a statewide election but it sure has a lot to do with the local mess that Canton is in.
@11:02 AM Nice try Hoodster. Your nose is growing, troll.
4:24, old Vixki Mcneill and Doc Truly tactic. Run off in Ward 5 is with his crony John Brown to take it. Corrupt little Democratic town.
Hood has been stumping the last week where he should already be strong. For instance, the Delta today. Hood has GOTV problems.
Sorry Mike, she's not on the list.
I've voted 'absentee' at the clerk's office in Canton the last three times. I do this rather than stand in line and encounter six seated and five standing idiots 'working' my polling place in Madison.
Voting absentee with competent staff is a breeze. Don't have to spell my name out loud three times and try to get some woman to understand my stated address while flipping through pages looking for me while two angry broads seated in the corner stare me down and two others are stuffing down donuts in the church kitchen.
Simply produce my drivers license, don't have to say a word, sign a few places and date and fill out a ballot and fold it. Done.
And yes, Canton is TRULY the most corrupt town in Mississippi. Will Shad ever visit?
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