Your Voting Rights

1. Every qualified Mississippi elector is entitled to vote regardless of race, creed, color, or disability.

2. No one may refuse a person the right to vote if that person is legally entitled to vote.

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3. If you are in line to vote at the poll closing time, you are legally allowed to cast your vote regardless of the poll closing time.

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4. No voter shall be threatened, intimidated, or paid to vote by any person.

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5. Voters whose names do not appear on the poll book or who do not have an acceptable form of photo ID are entitled to vote by affidavit ballot.

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6. Voters who cast an affidavit ballot are entitled to receive written information at the time of voting on how to determine if the vote was counted and, if not, why not.

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7. Voters who require assistance in marking the ballot because of disability, blindness, or an inability to read or write are entitled to receive assistance from a person of the voter’s choice, excluding, a candidate whose name is on the ballot, or the spouse, parent, sibling or child of a candidate whose name is on the ballot, or by a poll watcher who is observing in the polling place on Election Day, or the voter’s employer or agent of that employer, or officer or agent of the voter’s union; unless, however, a candidate for office or the spouse, parent or child of a candidate is related within the first degree to the voter requesting assistance.