By Staff
November 12, 2004
Saturday at noon is the deadline for absentee ballots to be cast in person at the Lauderdale County circuit clerk's office. Absentee ballots mailed to Circuit Clerk Donna Jill Johnson must be received in her office by 5 p.m. on Monday.
Absentee ballots may be filled out by anyone unable to vote at their regular voting precincts Tuesday in the Mississippi Supreme Court runoff election.
Incumbent Justice James Graves and challenger Samac Richardson, a circuit court judge in Madison and Rankin counties, will face each other in the runoff for the District 1/Position 2 seat on the Mississippi Supreme Court.
The central district includes 22 counties: Lauderdale, Bolivar, Claiborne, Copiah, Hinds, Holmes, Humphreys, Issaquena, Jefferson, Kemper, Leake, Madison, Neshoba, Newton, Noxubee, Rankin, Scott, Sharkey, Sunflower, Warren, Washington and Yazoo.
Non-absentee voters should report to their usual precincts on Tuesday, Nov. 16, between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m.
Anyone registered to vote in any of the counties that make up the Central Mississippi Supreme Court district can cast ballots in the runoff even if they didn't participate in the Nov. 2 general election.
For information, call Circuit Clerk Donna Jill Johnson at 482-9731.
Steve Gillespie