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Polling places will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 27 as Mississippi voters cast their ballots to choose a U.S. Senator.

Voters will be choosing between Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith, who was appointed to the seat by Gov. Phil Bryant following the retirement of Thad Cochran, and Democrat Mike Espy, a former Congressman and Secretary of Agriculture.

A voter’s polling place can be found on their voter registration card. To check a polling location or learn more about voting in Tuesday’s election, voters can call the Lauderdale County Circuit Court at (601) 482-9731. 

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. An affidavit ballot may be counted if the voter provides an acceptable form of photo identification to the Circuit Clerk’s Office within five business days after the election. For more information, visit www.msvoterID.ms.gov.

Voters standing in line at 7 p.m., the time polls close, are entitled to cast a ballot, according to the Mississippi Secretary of State’s Office. For more information about state election laws or Runoff Election Day information, visit www.yallvote.sos.ms.gov, or call the Elections Division Hotline at (601) 576-2550 or 1-800-829-6786.

The Secretary of State’s Office will have more than 30 observers in 64 counties across the state. Problems at the polls observed by state observers or otherwise reported to the Elections Division will be referred to the proper authorities, including county Election Commissioners, the Attorney General’s Office, or the appropriate District Attorney’s Office, according to the Secretary of State’s Office. The Secretary of State’s Office has no enforcement authority to resolve problems.

The Secretary of State’s office reported that 43,000 absentee ballots had been requested as of noon Saturday.