Our guest expert today – attorney Baskin Jones - will tell us about a topic I hope to have to never need to use! Personal Injury law. But it’s good to know, just in case. https://injuredinmississippi.com/ Phone: 601 INJURED (465-8733)

If you’re in need of an attorney for personal injury, divorce, intellectual property, or whatever – try looking through the Lawyer Directory and the For the Public sections of The Mississippi Bar’s website:

https://www.msbar.org/

APRIL 2nd PRIMARY RUNOFF ELECTION DAY. Polling places are open from 7:00 a.m. until 7:00 p.m. (Miss. Code Ann. § 23-15-1031)

April 9th Absentee Ballots Returned by Mail Receipt Deadline, 5:00 p.m.: Circuit Clerks’ Offices must be in actual receipt of absentee ballots returned by mail for ballots to be timely. Ballots returned by mail must be postmarked on or before Election Day. (MS Code Ann. § 23-15-637(1)(a))

Voter ID Affidavit Ballot Deadline, 5:00 p.m.: Last day voters who cast an affidavit ballot by reason of voter photo ID may present an acceptable form of photo ID or complete an affidavit of religious objection in the Circuit Clerks’ Offices. (Miss. Const. 1890 § 249-A)

https://www.sos.ms.gov/content/documents/Elections/2024%20Website%20Calendar.pdf

Two Republicans will compete on Tuesday for the right to challenge 16-term Democratic incumbent Rep. Bennie Thompson in Mississippi’s 2nd Congressional District. Ron Eller and Andrew Scott Smith were the top vote-getters in the March 12 primary, but neither received the vote majority needed to avoid the runoff election.

https://apnews.com/article/mississippi-primary-runoff-eller-smith-thompson-ce9225af839490e61d2c5eac3aec26f9

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