Registration Information for Mississippi
Registered voters can request an absentee ballot if they meet ONE of the following criteria:
• You will be outside the county on Election Day.
• You are an enlisted or commissioned member of any component of the United States
Armed Forces, or spouse or dependent of such member.
• You are a Member of the Merchant Marine or the American Red Cross, or spouse or
dependent of such member.
• You are a disabled war veteran who is a patient in any hospital, or the spouse or
dependent of such veteran.
• You are a civilian attached to and serving outside of the United States with any branch
of the Armed Forces or with the Merchant Marine or American Red Cross, or spouse or
dependent of such civilian.
• You are a citizen of Mississippi temporarily residing outside the territorial limits of the
United States and the District of Columbia.
• You are a student, teacher or administrator at a college, university, junior or community
college, high, junior high, elementary or grade school, whose studies or employment at
such institution necessitates your absence from the county of your voting residence or
spouse or dependent of such student, teacher or administrator.
• You have a temporary or permanent physical disability.
• You are sixty-five (65) years of age or older.
• You are the parent, spouse or dependent of a person with a temporary or permanent
physical disability who is hospitalized outside his or her county of residence or more
than fifty (50) miles away from his or her residence, and you will be with such person on
Election Day.
• You are a member of the congressional delegation, or spouse or dependent of a
member of the congressional delegation.
• You are required to be at work on Election Day during the times which the polls will be
open.
• You will be outside the county on Election Day.
• You are an enlisted or commissioned member of any component of the United States
Armed Forces, or spouse or dependent of such member.
• You are a Member of the Merchant Marine or the American Red Cross, or spouse or
dependent of such member.
• You are a disabled war veteran who is a patient in any hospital, or the spouse or
dependent of such veteran.
• You are a civilian attached to and serving outside of the United States with any branch
of the Armed Forces or with the Merchant Marine or American Red Cross, or spouse or
dependent of such civilian.
• You are a citizen of Mississippi temporarily residing outside the territorial limits of the
United States and the District of Columbia.
• You are a student, teacher or administrator at a college, university, junior or community
college, high, junior high, elementary or grade school, whose studies or employment at
such institution necessitates your absence from the county of your voting residence or
spouse or dependent of such student, teacher or administrator.
• You have a temporary or permanent physical disability.
• You are sixty-five (65) years of age or older.
• You are the parent, spouse or dependent of a person with a temporary or permanent
physical disability who is hospitalized outside his or her county of residence or more
than fifty (50) miles away from his or her residence, and you will be with such person on
Election Day.
• You are a member of the congressional delegation, or spouse or dependent of a
member of the congressional delegation.
• You are required to be at work on Election Day during the times which the polls will be
open.
What else you should know
In Mississippi, felony convictions of murder, rape, bribery, theft, arson, obtaining money or goods under false pretense, perjury, forgery, embezzlement or bigamy disqualify the individuals who commit these crimes from voting, according to Article 2, Section 241 of the state's constitution.