§ Miss. Code § 23-15-1093Petition in support of candidacy

Any person desiring to have his name placed on the presidential preference primary ballot
shall file a petition or petitions in support of his candidacy with the state executive committee of
the appropriate political party after January 1 of the year in which the presidential preference
primary is to be held and before January 15 of that same year. To comply with this section, a
candidate may file a petition or petitions signed by a total of not less than five hundred (500)
qualified electors of the state, or petitions signed by not less than one hundred (100) qualified
electors of each congressional district of the state, in which case there shall be a separate petition
for each congressional district. The petitions shall be in such form as the State Executive
Committee may prescribe; provided, that there shall be a space for the county of residence of
each signer next to the space provided for his signature. No signature may be counted as valid
unless the county of residence of the signer is provided. Each petition shall contain an
affirmation under the penalties of perjury that each signer is a qualified elector in his
congressional district or in the state, as appropriate.