125 S.

CONGRESS STEET
POST OFFICE BOX 136
JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI 39205-0136

For Immediate Release: Monday, June 23 2014
Contact: Pamela Weaver, Director of Communications
pamela.weaver@sos.ms.gov / (601) 270-4100

Grace Craig
grace.craig@sos.ms.gov / (601) 842-1839

Democratic Party and Republican Party Absentee Ballot Totals

Jackson, MS The Democratic Party and Republican Party are conducting runoff primary elections on June 24,
2014. These elections are conducted by the respective party and not the Secretary of States Office. According
to the Statewide Election Management System, 19,144 absentee ballots have been requested as of 9:00am on
Monday, June 23
rd
. This compares to 18,036 total absentee ballots requested in the June 3
rd
Democratic Party
and Republican Party Primary Election.

Mississippians across the State realize the importance of every single vote in this Party Primary Runoff
Election, said Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann. We hope to see high voter turnout on Election Day.

Absentee ballots returned by mail must be received by your Circuit Clerk no later than Monday, June 23
rd
by
5:00 pm.

Absentee Ballot totals are entered into the Statewide Election Management System (SEMS) by Circuit Clerks in
each county. Currently, the 2014 Primary Runoff Election absentee ballot totals statewide are as follows:

Absentee Ballot Requests as of 9:00am
Monday, June 23, 2014
Adams County 266
Alcorn County 227
Amite County 131
Attala County
153
Benton County 106
Bolivar County 127
Calhoun County
107
Carroll County
95
Chickasaw County
109
Choctaw County
83
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Claiborne County
20
Clarke County
179
Clay County 162
Coahoma County 93
Copiah County 135
Covington County 196
DeSoto County 768
Forrest County 529
Franklin County 151
George County 134
Greene County
107
Grenada County 235
Hancock County 235
Harrison County 901
Hinds County 861
Holmes County 143
Humphreys County 80
Issaquena County 4
Itawamba County 145
Jackson County 520
Jasper County 211
Jefferson County 17
Jeff Davis County 94
Jones County 213
Kemper County 73
Lafayette County 588
Lamar County 449
Lauderdale County 1031
Lawrence County
Leake County 86
Lee County 584
Leflore County 224
Lincoln County 397
Lowndes County 288
Madison County 972
Marion County 303
Marshall County 128
Monroe County 238
Montgomery
County
168
Neshoba County 168
Newton County 116
Noxubee County 87
Oktibbeha County 495
Panola County 168
Pearl River County 462
Perry County 89
Pike County 325
Pontotoc County 196
Prentiss County 111
Quitman County 95
Rankin County 1235
Scott County 86
Sharkey County
Simpson County 151
Smith County 145
Stone County 107
Sunflower County
Tallahatchie County 55
Tate County 129
Tippah County 118
Tishomingo County 106
Tunica County 25
Union County 216
Walthall County 133
Warren County 289
Washington County 210
Wayne County 218
Webster County 106
Wilkinson County 27
Winston County 208
Yalobusha County 82
Yazoo County
120
TOTAL 19,144



According to State law, the following categories of registered voters are eligible to cast an
absentee ballot:
Members of the Armed Forces or their spouses and/or dependents;
Members of the Merchant Marines or the American Red Cross, or their spouses and/or
dependents;
Disabled war veterans who are patients in any hospital, or their spouses and/or
dependents;
Civilians attached to any branch of the Armed Forces, the Merchant Marines, or the
American Red Cross and serving outside of the United State, or their spouses and/or
dependents;
Persons temporarily residing outside the territorial limits of the United States and the District
of Columbia;
Students, teachers, or administrators whose employment or studies necessitate their
absence from their county of voting residence, or their dependent or spouse who
maintains a common domicile outside the county of voting residence;
Persons who will be outside of their county of residence on election day;
Persons required to be at work on election day during the times at which the polls will be
open;
Persons temporarily or permanently physically disabled;
Persons sixty-five (65) years of age or older;
Parents, spouses or dependents of persons having a temporary or permanent physical
disability who are hospitalized outside their county of residence or more than fifty (50)
miles away from their residence if the parents, spouses, and/or dependents will be with
such persons on election day;
Members of the Mississippi Congressional delegation, or their spouses and/or dependents.



D and R Party Primary Ronoff will be conducted tomorrow. Although these are conducting by the
partiesm stricty adherence to MS law should be followed.

Observers from both the Secretary of States Office and the AGs Office will be in Mississ couties on
Election Day.

Our Agencies have prepared summaries for each balif at every precinct. A copy of that summary is
attached.



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