Vote today: Mississippians head to the polls for statewide primaries – Jackson Clarion Ledger

<a href="https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/politics/2019/08/06/mississippi-elections-vote-today-governor-statewide-and-local-races/1920873001/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Vote today: Mississippians head to the polls for statewide primaries</a> <font color="#6f6f6f">Jackson Clarion Ledger</font><p>Vote today: Voters will decide which statewide, legislative and local candidates advance to the November general election.</p>

Luke Ramseth, Mississippi Clarion Ledger Published 3:00 a.m. CT Aug. 6, 2019 | Updated 5:50 p.m. CT Aug. 6, 2019

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Mississippians head to the polls Tuesday for the Democratic and Republican primaries.

Voters will decide which statewide, legislative and local candidates advance to the November general election.

Follow here: Election results for 2019 Mississippi primary races

The polls are open 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., and any voter in line at 7 p.m. is entitled to cast a ballot. To find out where your polling place is located, visit sos.ms.gov/pollingplace. Sample ballots for statewide and legislative candidates are at sos.ms.gov/elections-voting, or visit your county’s election site.

Some races where no candidate receives at least 50 percent of the vote will go to an Aug. 27 primary runoff between the top two vote-getters. The winning Democrat and Republican in each race face off Nov. 5.

Voters must present a form of government photo identification at their polling place, such as a driver’s license, passport, or military photo ID. If you do not have photo ID with you, you can still cast an affidavit ballot, but you must present photo ID at the local circuit or municipal clerk’s office within five working days to have your vote counted.

If you did not register to vote in time for the primary but would like to vote in the general election, it’s not too late. Instructions and a form are at sos.ms.gov/elections-voting.

The secretary of state’s office reported more than 46,000 voters have requested absentee ballots, about 5,000 more than in the 2015 election. More have already been returned than in 2015 as well. More than 1.8 million Mississippians are registered to vote, out of the state’s eligible voting age population of about 2.2 million.

For more information, the secretary of state’s office asks Mississippians to visit Y’all Vote, yallvote.sos.ms.gov or to call 601-576-2550.

Hinds County elections: See the list of candidates on ballot for Aug. 6 primary

Rankin County elections: See the list of candidates on ballot for Aug. 6 primary

Madison County elections: Madison County elections: See the list of candidates on ballot for August primary

Governor: Mississippi governor race guide: Everything you need to know about the candidates and issues

Who’s running: Mississippi election 2019: Who’s running for governor, other state offices

Contact Luke Ramseth at 601-961-7050 or lramseth@gannett.com. Follow @lramseth on Twitter. Please support our work at the Clarion Ledger by subscribing.

A family cabin at the 2019 Neshoba County Fair displays a banner asking to finish the Yazoo basin pumps project. A major topic of political point at the legendary political stump after months of flooding have inundated the south delta region of Mississippi. Thursday Aug. 1, 2019.

Gubernatorial candidate Tate Reeves' supporters sit on the pavilion floor to get up front and close during his speech at the Neshoba County Fair Thursday.

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Andy Taggart, Republican candidate for attorney general, addresses the crowd at the pavilion in Founders Square at the Neshoba County Fair Thursday. Thursday, Aug. 1, 2019

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Addie Lee Green, Democratic candidate for treasurer, uses cash and a piggy bank to illustrate her point while addressing the audience in the pavilion in Founders Square at the Neshoba County Fair Thursday. Thursday, Aug. 1, 2019

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Mark Baker, Republican candidate for attorney general, addresses the crowd at the pavilion in Founders Square at the Neshoba County Fair Thursday. Thursday, Aug. 1, 2019

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Lynn Fitch, Republican candidate for attorney general, addresses the crowd at the pavilion in Founders Square at the Neshoba County Fair Thursday. Thursday, Aug. 1, 2019

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David McRea, Republican candidate for treasurer, addresses the crowd at the pavilion in Founders Square at the Neshoba County Fair Thursday. Thursday, Aug. 1, 2019

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Buck Clarke, Republican candidate for treasurer, addresses the crowd at the pavilion in Founders Square at the Neshoba County Fair Thursday. Thursday, Aug. 1, 2019

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Gubernatorial candidate Jim Hood supporters spill over outside the boundries of the pavilion to surrounding Founders Square at the Neshoba County Fair Thursday morning as candidates for governor gave 10-minute orations to large crowds gatered for the traditional stump speeches.

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While addressing the crowd gathered in and around the pavilion in Founders Square at the Neshona County Square Thursday, Gov. Phil Bryant speaks of the accomplishments Mississippi has made during his eight-year administration.

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Tate Reeves, Republican candidate for governor, addresses the crowd at the pavilion in Founders Square at the Neshoba County Fair Thursday, Aug. 1, 2019.

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Jim Hood, Democratic candidate for governor, addresses the crowd at the pavilion in Founders Square at the Neshoba County Fair Thursday morning.

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Robert Shuler Smith, Democratic candidate for governor, addresses the crowd at the pavilion in Founders Square at the Neshoba County Fair Thursday, Aug. 1, 2019.

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Robert Foster, Republican candidate for governor, addresses the crowd at the pavilion in Founders Square at the Neshoba County Fair Thursday morning.

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Bill Waller Jr., Republican candidate for governor, addresses the crowd at the pavilion in Founders Square at the Neshoba County Fair Thursday, Aug. 1, 2019.

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David Singletary, independent candidate for governor, addresses the crowd at the pavilion in Founders Square at the Neshoba County Fair Thursday, Aug. 1, 2019.

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Velesha Williams, Democratic candidate for governor, addresses the crowd at the pavilion in Founders Square at the Neshoba County Fair Thursday. Aug. 1, 2019.

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Mack Alford, of Philadelphia, has been coming to the Neshoba County Fair for all of his 75 years, and he comes to listen to all the political speeches. "I'm not a Democrat," Alford said on Thursday, Aug. 1, 2019. "I'm not a Republican. I'm for whoever the man is."

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Neshoba Central Big Blue Band member Zavibien Welch, 16, and the Big Blue Band entertain fairgoers in Founders Square Thursday, Aug. 1, 2019 at the Neshoba County Fair.

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Neshoba Central Big Blue Band members, from left, Zach Brown, 15, and Lindsey Beckham, 16, keep the beat with other drum-line members as the Big Blue Band entertains fairgoers in Founders Square Thursday, Aug. 1, 2019, at the Neshoba County Fair.

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Nancy Anderson, of Pontotoc, is decked out in her red, white and blue for the political speeches at Founders Square at the Neshoba County Fair Wednesday, July 31, 2019.

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Republican Andy Gipson, incumbent candidate for agriculture and commerce commissioner, speaks at the pavilion in Founders Square at the Neshoba County Fair on Wednesday, July 31, 2019.

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Rickey Cole, candidate for agriculture and commerce commissioner, addresses the crowd gathered at the pavilion in Founders Square at the Neshoba County Square on Wednesday, July 31, 2019.

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A healthy competition of cheering for their candidates erupts in the pavilion at Founders Square at the Neshoba County Fair Wednesday, July 31, 2019. The fair, which started in 1889, has extra energy and excitement during an election year.

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Lindy Brown, of Jackson, photographs her father, Cecil Brown, public service district of the central district, speaking in the pavilion at Founders Square at the Neshoba County Fair Wednesday, July 31, 2019. The long-time Public Service commissioner is not running for reelection.

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Bobbie Witcher, of Philadelphia, joins others gathering at the Pavillion in Founders Square at the Neshoba County Fair to hear what the political candidates have to say. "This is a tradition, coming to the fair," Witcher says. But it's the first time for Witcher to listen to the candidates. "I'm curious — more concerned. I'm a farmer. I want to know what they're going to do for the working people."

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Oblivious to the ongoing stump speeches in the pavilion, background, life continues for others at the Neshoba County Fair Wednesday, July 31, 2019. Barbara Day, right, of Little Rock, Ark., sits in Founders Square with her sons, from left, George, 2, and Richard, 4, with a friend’s daughter Edie Agostinelli, 19 months. As for listening to the speeches — “Not at all,” Day said. In the square with Edie’s mother, Day continued, ” We just wanted to being them out to play.” Barbara Gauntt/Clarion Ledger

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Sam Britton, Republican candidate for secretary of state, addresses the crowd in the pavilion in Founders Square at the Neshoba County Fair Wednesday, July 31, 2019.

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Michael Watson, Republican candidate for secretary of state, speaks in the pavilion in Founders Square at the Neshoba County Fair Wednesday, July 31, 2019, correcting what he perceives as inaccuracies about him in his opponent's ads.

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Jay Hughes, Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor, speaks to cheering supporters in the pavilion in Founders Square at the Neshoba County Fair on Wednesday, July 31, 2019.

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Former Democratic Hattiesburg Mayor Johnny Dupree, a candidate for his party's nomination for Secretary of State, addresses the crowd at the Neshoba County Fair in Philadelphia, Miss., Wednesday, July 31, 2019.

A Delbert Hosemann hand fan peeks out of Neshoba County fairgoer's pocket standing near the pavilion in Founders Square as crowds begin to gather for the stump speeches Wednesday, July 31, 2019.

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Rep. Jay Hughes, D-Oxford, left, and Republican Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann, confer at the Neshoba County Fair in Philadelphia, Miss., Wednesday, July 31, 2019. The two are seeking their respective parties nominations for lieutenant governor, and both spoke at the Fair. Candidates running in party primaries for statewide offices and district posts take advantage of the large gathered crowd at the fair who attend for the speeches.

A fair cabin resident calls upon the president to complete the Mississippi Delta drainage pump project amid all the political signage at the Neshoba County Fair in Philadelphia, Miss., Wednesday, July 31, 2019. Thousands of acres of farmland has been underwater since February. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Emily Speed of Madison, center, uses her "Delbert" fan to cool herself as she and other supporters wait for their candidate to speak at the Neshoba County Fair in Philadelphia, Miss., Wednesday, July 31, 2019. Republican Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann, traditionally passes out his fans at each fair, and is seeking the party's nomination for lieutenant governor.

Neshoba Central High School head drum major Grace Everett, directs the band as they play for fairgoers at the Neshoba County Fair in Philadelphia, Miss., Wednesday, July 31, 2019. Candidates running in party primaries for statewide offices and district posts take advantage of the large gathered crowd at the fair who attend for the speeches.

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