2020 Election Issue
Preparing for Nov. 3: Voting In Unprecedented Times by Kayode Crown
October 28 - November 10, 2020 • jfp.ms
Hinds County Circuit Clerk Zack Wallace said nothing much has changed in the voting process of Hinds County even in the midst of COVID-19. He explained to the Jackson Free Press exactly how the local process will work.
issued by an accredited Mississippi university, college, or community/junior college; a United States military photo ID; a tribal photo ID; any other photo ID issued by
any branch, department, agency or entity of the United States government or any State government; or a Mississippi voter identification card.
The secretary of state’s website says voters can call 1-844-MSVoter (1-844678-6837) with voter ID queries or assistance in obtaining a Mississippi
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Statewide Ballot Measure 1 Initiated by Petition and Alternative by Legislature Initiative Measure No. 65: “, Should Mississippi allow qualified patients with debilitating medical conditions, as certified by Mississippi licensed physicians, to use medical marijuana?”
Statewide Ballot Measure 2 House Concurrent Resolution No. 47
Statewide Ballot Measure 3 House Bill 1796 - Flag Referendum: “ Please vote ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ on whether the following design shall be the official Mississippi State Flag”
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This amendment provides that to be elected Governor, or to any other statewide office, a candidate must receive a majority of the votes in the general election. If no candidate receives a majority of the votes, then a runoff election shall be held as provided by general law. The requirement of receiving the most votes in a majority of Mississippi House of Representatives’ districts is removed. Find more information on the secretary of state’s website at sos.ms.gov.
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ack Wallace, the Hinds County circuit clerk for the past five years, is seeing a record level of absentee voting this year as the Nov. 3 general election draws near. “This year for this election, I know we have 7,717 (absentee voters) as of right now,” he told the Jackson Free Press on Oct. 16 in his office. “If my numbers are correct, in 2008, based on the system, we had 7,009 absentee voters; in 2016, we had 5,309, so right now, we are over 7000, and we still have two weeks left to vote, two full weeks.” As of Oct. 26, the number of received absentee ballots in Hinds had grown to 11,772 after a weekend where voters waited in lines around the block to cast their absentee ballots in person in downtown Jackson. Absentee voting started Sept. 12. People can come to the circuit clerk’s office in downtown Jackson and in Raymond to vote absentee until the Saturday before Election Day—Oct. 31 this year—if they provide a valid reason and present a photo ID. People can request an absentee ballot by mail until Nov. 2. The exhaustive list of acceptable photo-identification cards based on Secretary of State Michael Watson’s guidelines include: a driver’s license; a government issued photo ID card; a United States passport; a government employee photo; identification card; a firearms license; a student photo ID
