Who is Eligible to Vote Absentee?

If you are a citizen of Mississippi and a registered voter you may vote absentee if you meet one of the following conditions:

• 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 will be outside the county on Election Day.
• 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 county of residence or more than fifty (50) miles away from his 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.