Local voters will get to weigh in on this year’s presidential race, and also begin to decide some others, during Tuesday’s March 8 primary elections.
The polls at all 21 Tallahatchie County voting precincts will be open from 7 a.m. until 7 p.m.
All voters should remember to bring an acceptable photo ID to vote in person on election day.
In addition, Circuit Clerk Daphane Neal said Monday that her offices in the county courthouses at Charleston and Sumner will be open from 8 a.m. until noon on Saturday, March 5, to accommodate last-minute absentee balloting. For more information, call Neal’s Charleston office at 647-8758 or her Sumner office at 375-8515.
“We’re here for the voters, so if anybody has any questions, feel free to call or come in,” Neal noted.
Voters on Tuesday must choose to participate in either the Democratic or Republican primary. Both Democratic and Republican ballots will feature candidates for president and U.S. House. Some Democratic ballots also will feature a levee board post.
Appearing on the Democratic ballot for president will be Hillary Clinton, Roque “Rocky” De La Fuente, Martin O’Malley, Bernie Sanders and latecomer Willie Wilson, whose name just recently was added to the ballot through a state Supreme Court ruling.
Sykes Sturdivant of Glendora is unopposed for re-election as Tallahatchie County’s representative on the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta Levee Board.
Second District U.S. Rep. Bennie G. Thompson of Bolton likewise has no Democratic foe, but he will face a Republican challenger in November in the person of John Bouie II of Gulfport, who is unopposed for the seat on the GOP primary ticket.
The only other race on Republican ballots March 8 will be for president, and although some of the candidates have suspended their campaigns, all of their names will appear just the same.
Republican presidential hopefuls on Mississippi ballots next week will be Jeb Bush, Ben Carson, Chris Christie, Ted Cruz, Carly Fiorina, Lindsey Graham, Mike Huckabee, John R. Kasich, George Pataki, Rand Paul, Marco Rubio, Rick Santorum and Donald J. Trump.
