Ahead of special legislative elections happening in November, the Mississippi Secretary of State’s Office announced Monday that in-person and mail-in absentee ballots are now available at local circuit clerk offices.

Primary races were held in August after a federal panel of judges ordered the state to redraw House districts in the Chickasaw County area, along with Senate districts in the Hattiesburg and DeSoto County areas, that were diluting Black voting power.

Add in a House seat left vacant by now-Clarksdale Mayor Orlando Paden, a Senate seat left vacant by now-Jackson Mayor John Horhn, and a Senate seat left vacant by David L. Jordan, of Greenwood, and a total of 17 legislative seats will be up for grabs. Races for some local positions are also happening, as well.

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