Due to the fact that there were fewer absentee ballots received and returned, it’s likely that less people will vote in Tuesday’s runoff election than for the primaries. The number of absentee voters and overall turnout often correlate. According to Delbert Hosemann’s numbers, there were 46.636 absentee ballots that were requested on Aug. 6, and 42.858 of them returned or voted. In 2015, 41,392 ballots were requested, and 37,318 returned. On Aug. 6, the turnout was approximately 130,000 more than in the 2015 Republican or Democratic primaries, which was 685,470 in 2019, compared to 556.057 in 2015. Mississippi has 1.8 mission-registered voters. On Monday night, 24347 absent votes were received. This is approximately 18,500 more than the 24,347 received on Aug. 6. Mississippi law allows people who will be away from home on Election Day, and over 65 to vote absentee. Absentee voting is possible by sending in a ballot by mail or by going to their county circuit clerk’s offices before noon on the Saturday prior to the election. Republicans will go back to the polls Tuesday in order to elect a nominee for gubernatorial office between Lt. Governor. Tate Reeves, and former Supreme Court Chief Judge Bill Waller Jr. The Republican party will also be featuring Treasurer Lynn Fitch, Madison County attorney Andy Taggart and former Supreme Court Chief Justice Bill Waller Jr. John Caldwell from DeSoto County, and Geoffrey Yoste from Lafayette County are running for the Republican primary seat as the Northern District’s open transportation commissioner seat. On the Republican ballot, there will be six House elections and five state Senate runoffs. There will be four Senate and two House runoffs on the Democratic ballot. De’Keither Stamps, Jackson City Council Member, and Dorothy “Dot” Benford from Jackson will compete in the Democratic Party’s runoff for the position of open public service commissioner. If no candidate receives a majority vote, the top two vote-getters will advance to the second round. Voters who voted Aug. 6 cannot vote in the primary for the same party as they voted in Aug. 6. People who didn’t vote on Aug. 6, can still vote Tuesday in the primary they choose. Normally, less people go to the polls for runoff elections. However, this was not true for the Republican runoff for U.S. Senate in 2014. The race between incumbent ThadCochran and state Senator Chris McDaniel was a Republican runoff. The runoff saw 382,197 votes, which is almost 63,000 more than the total vote in the primary.