Mississippi’s Legislative session is only 90 days. It starts next January 5th of 2027. What have our legislators been up to since last April? We’ll learn today with District 72 Mississippi House of Representative, Justis Gibbs.
Today’s Legal Terms on In Legal Terms are: constituent services, committee process, appropriations
Election Day is next Tuesday. Has your polling place moved? More on that next. Local Mississippi Officials Have Made 138 Polling Place Changes Ahead of the 2026 Election according to the Mississippi Free Press. There is a MS Law from 2025 that polling places can’t change less than 60 days before an election. Click on the My Election Day button on the Secretary of State’s Y’all vote dot ms site to double check where you are assigned to vote and look up your own Sample Ballot after you put in your address so you’ll be prepared on Tuesday, November 3rd – Election Day.
Do you know the difference between absentee and affidavit? You may vote absentee in person from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m today and tomorrow and 8am to noon Saturday, October 31stat your circuit clerk’s office.Once your ballot is scanned, you have completed the in-person absentee process, and your ballot will be counted on the night of the election, after the polls have closed.
Voters are required to show photo identification at the polls. A voter without an acceptable form of photo identification is entitled to cast an affidavit ballot. Voters who cast an affidavit ballot because they forgot their voter ID must present an acceptable form of photo ID to their Circuit Clerk's Office by November 10.
MS House District 72 contact information: jgibbs@house.ms.gov Home: (601) 827-1691 Capitol (601) 359-3728 Hotline: (601)827-1691
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