- The Board of Elections is responsible for conducting your county elections. They set the boundaries for voting precincts and secure facilities to serve as polling locations for these precincts.
- The Board recruits, selects, hires, trains and assigns personnel to serve as poll workers.
- The Board conducts qualifications for candidates and develops the ballots used for each election.
- The Board acquires, maintains, prepares and delivers equipment used to conduct elections. They also publicize notices as required by law and maintain election records.

Part of the board that supervises your county's elections

Mississippi

2023 Mississippi General Election

Voting Access

Election Oversight

Election Commissioner

- County Supervisors are members of a county-level board called the Board of Supervisors. The board runs the county government, including setting county priorities and funding projects with a multi-million dollar county budget. 
- The board is in charge of county roads, ferries, bridges, law enforcement, collections, fines, and taxes. They also appoint some county-level officials. 
- Decisions made by county supervisors directly impact economic development, public health, safety, and welfare of county citizens. 
- Each county is divided into five supervisor districts of equal population size. Supervisors are elected every four years in partisan elections. Elections take place in odd-numbered years before a presidential election (2023, 2027, 2031, etc.). 

Member of a 5-person board that runs the county

Small Businesses

Public Safety

County Supervisor

- The Board of Education runs the public school system. The Board of Education is entirely independent from the rest of the county government.
- Board of Education members work together to make school policy, set the budget, and appoint the superintendent to run the schools day to day.
- Some Board of Education members are elected to four-year terms in odd-numbered years before presidential elections (2023, 2027, 2031, etc.).

Part of the board that governs your county's public school system

Teacher Pay

College & Career Readiness

County School Board Member

- Justice Court Judges hear and decide cases for small claims of $3,500 or less, low-level criminal cases and traffic cases that take place outside of cities. 
- Justice Court Judges have the power to issue search warrants for the police to search a suspect’s property, and they also have the power to decide how much bond should be for high-level criminal cases. 
- Mississippi has 82 Justice Courts with 197 Justice Court Judges. 
- Justice Court Judges are the only Mississippi judges elected in partisan elections. They serve four year terms. 

The decision maker in small claims and traffic cases

Judicial Efficiency

Justice Court Judge

- Chancery Court Clerks receive, file, and maintain court paperwork for the Chancery Court. They also serve as the clerk to the county board of supervisors, including keeping board minutes, issuing checks for the board, and acting as county treasurer and auditor. 
- Chancery Courts are for family law, including adoptions, custody disputes, and divorces, guardianships, sanity hearings, wills, equity, and challenges to the constitutionality of state laws. Court paperwork in all of these types of cases are filed with the clerk’s office, as well as land records. 
- Some Mississippi counties have no county courts. In these counties, everything that is normally heard in a county court is heard by the chancery court. This includes youth court, delinquency, abuse, and neglect. 
- These are 20 chancery court districts, with one elected clerk for each district. 

Official record keeper and administrator of the chancery court

Forrest

Public Health

Chancery Court Clerk

- The Tax Collector is responsible for collecting taxes for the county, all cities within the county, and local school districts. They send bills, collect payments, and distribute tax payments to the county to fund government services
- Taxes handled by the Tax Collector’s office include taxes on real estate, personal property, license plates for cars, privilege licenses, manufactured homes, sales tax on cars, and airplanes. . 
- The Tax Collector’s office also handles the registration of all vehicles and mobile homes in the county, titling vehicles bought from out of state, and issuing and renewing county privilege licenses. 
- Tax Collectors are elected every four years in partisan elections.

The accountant who collects taxes for the county

2023 Mississippi candidates

Desoto Election Commissioner, District 4

1 candidate

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Desoto County Supervisor, District 1

3 candidates

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Desoto County School Board Member, District 3

2 candidates

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Desoto Election Commissioner, District 2

2 candidates

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Desoto Justice Court Judge, District 5

2 candidates

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Desoto Justice Court Judge, District 4

2 candidates

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Desoto County Supervisor, District 3

2 candidates

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Forrest Chancery Court Clerk

1 candidate

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Forrest Tax Collector

1 candidate

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Forrest County Supervisor, District 1

1 candidate

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