§ Miss. Code § 23-15-713Electors qualified to vote as absentees

For the purpose of this subarticle, any duly qualified elector may vote as provided in this
subarticle if he be one who falls within the following categories:
(a) Any qualified elector who is a bona fide student, teacher or administrator at any college,
university, junior college, high, junior high, or elementary grade school whose studies or
employment at such institution necessitates his absence from the county of his voting residence
on the date of any primary, general or special election, or the spouse and dependents of said
student, teacher or administrator if such spouse or dependent(s) maintain a common domicile,
outside of the county of his voting residence, with such student, teacher or administrator.
(b) Any qualified elector who is required to be away from his place of residence on any
election day due to his employment as an employee of a member of the Mississippi
congressional delegation and the spouse and dependents of such person if he or she shall be
residing with such absentee voter away from the county of the spouse's voting residence.
(c) Any qualified elector who is away from his county of residence on election day for any
reason.
(d) Any person who has a temporary or permanent physical disability and who, because of
such disability, is unable to vote in person without substantial hardship to himself or others, or
whose attendance at the voting place could reasonably cause danger to himself or others.
(e) The parent, spouse or dependent of a person with a temporary or permanent physical
disability who is hospitalized outside of his county of residence or more than fifty (50) miles
distant from his residence, if the parent, spouse or dependent will be with such person on election
day.
(f) Any person who is sixty-five (65) years of age or older.
(g) Any member of the Mississippi congressional delegation absent from Mississippi on
election day, and the spouse and dependents of such member of the congressional delegation.
(h) Any qualified elector who will be unable to vote in person because he is required to be at
work on election day during the times at which the polls will be open.