{"id":78326,"date":"2019-08-06T10:20:50","date_gmt":"2019-08-06T15:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=78326"},"modified":"2019-08-06T10:26:57","modified_gmt":"2019-08-06T15:26:57","slug":"primary-election-day-reminders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/primary-election-day-reminders\/","title":{"rendered":"Primary Election Day Reminders"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today, Tuesday, August 6, 2019, is <strong>Primary Election Day<\/strong> in Mississippi.&nbsp;Polls open at 7 am and close at 7 pm Mississippians will have the opportunity to cast their ballot for statewide, state district, legislative, county and county district offices.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Helpful tips to ensure your experience at the polls is as smooth as possible are as follows:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Polling Place Hours:&nbsp;<\/strong>Polling places are open 7 am to 7 pm You are permitted to cast a ballot if you are standing in line at 7 pm.<\/li><li><strong>Polling Place Locations:<\/strong>&nbsp;A polling place locator is available on the Secretary of State&#8217;s website at&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/links.govdelivery.com\/track?type=click&amp;enid=ZWFzPTEmbXNpZD0mYXVpZD0mbWFpbGluZ2lkPTIwMTkwODA2Ljg4Mjc2MzEmbWVzc2FnZWlkPU1EQi1QUkQtQlVMLTIwMTkwODA2Ljg4Mjc2MzEmZGF0YWJhc2VpZD0xMDAxJnNlcmlhbD0xNjc4MDIzNSZlbWFpbGlkPW5ld3RAdGhlbG9jYWx2b2ljZS5uZXQmdXNlcmlkPW5ld3RAdGhlbG9jYWx2b2ljZS5uZXQmdGFyZ2V0aWQ9JmZsPSZtdmlkPSZleHRyYT0mJiY=&amp;&amp;&amp;100&amp;&amp;&amp;http:\/\/www.sos.ms.gov\/PollingPlace\/Pages\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.sos.ms.gov\/PollingPlace\/Pages\/default.aspx<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/li><li><strong>Campaigning:&nbsp;<\/strong>Refrain from campaigning for any candidate or party within 150 feet of a polling place, unless you are on private property.<\/li><li><strong>Loitering:<\/strong>&nbsp;Refrain from loitering within 30 feet of a polling place, including within the polling place. After you cast your ballot, please depart so your fellow citizens can quickly cast their ballot.&nbsp;<\/li><li><strong>Voter ID:<\/strong>&nbsp;Don\u2019t forget to bring your photo ID to the polls! For more information on acceptable forms of ID, visit&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/links.govdelivery.com\/track?type=click&amp;enid=ZWFzPTEmbXNpZD0mYXVpZD0mbWFpbGluZ2lkPTIwMTkwODA2Ljg4Mjc2MzEmbWVzc2FnZWlkPU1EQi1QUkQtQlVMLTIwMTkwODA2Ljg4Mjc2MzEmZGF0YWJhc2VpZD0xMDAxJnNlcmlhbD0xNjc4MDIzNSZlbWFpbGlkPW5ld3RAdGhlbG9jYWx2b2ljZS5uZXQmdXNlcmlkPW5ld3RAdGhlbG9jYWx2b2ljZS5uZXQmdGFyZ2V0aWQ9JmZsPSZtdmlkPSZleHRyYT0mJiY=&amp;&amp;&amp;101&amp;&amp;&amp;http:\/\/www.msvoterid.ms.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.MSVoterID.ms.gov<\/a>.<\/li><li><strong>Election Hotline:<\/strong>&nbsp;If you experience problems at the polls, or have any other questions, please call the Secretary of State\u2019s Election Hotline at 1-800-829-6786.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Primary Elections are conducted by political parties in Mississippi, but you do not have to be a member of a political party in order to cast your vote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/2019elections\/TheLocalVoice-OxfordMiss-Republican-August-6-2019-Ballot.pdf\">Click here for a SAMPLE BALLOT and see who&#8217;s running in the Republican Party Primary on August 6, 2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/2019elections\/TheLocalVoice-OxfordMiss-Democratic-August-6-2019-Ballot.pdf\">Click here for a SAMPLE BALLOT and see who&#8217;s running in the Democrat Party Primary on August 6, 2019 <\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" height=\"16\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14544\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, Tuesday, August 6, 2019, is Primary Election Day in Mississippi.&nbsp;Polls open at 7 am and close at<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":78183,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[13761,9499,243,5,14883,14881],"class_list":["post-78326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-elections","tag-13761","tag-democrat","tag-election","tag-mississippi","tag-polls","tag-primary-election-day"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/PrimaryElections.jpg?fit=986%2C555&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}