NATCHEZ — With nearly 500 absentee ballots already turned in by Monday afternoon, election officials are expecting voter turnout to be high today during Election Day.

“I’m hoping for 50 percent turnout,” Adams County Election Commissioner Larry Gardner said. “You’ll have some good weather, and really these local races are what are going to bring people out.”

Adams County Circuit Clerk Eddie Walker said his office received 494 absentee ballots as of the end of the day Monday.

“That’s almost 90 more than we did for the last election,” Walker said. “The absentee process went very smoothly this year, and we actually had an increase in Monday when a lot of those started coming in.”

The 19 voting locations for Adams County voters open at 7 a.m. and close at 7 p.m. today.

The locations by district are as follows:

District 1

• Bypass fire precinct, Bypass fire station at 467 John R. Junkin Drive.

• Bellemont precinct, Elks Lodge at 241 Lower Woodville Road.

• Courthouse precinct, Adams County Courthouse at 115 S. Wall St.

District 2

• Beau Pre´ precinct, Church of Christ at 2 Beau Pre´ Road.

• Duncan Park precinct, Duncan Park Canteen at 57 Duncan Park Road.

• Kingston precinct, Kingston Fire Station at 575 Kingston Road.

• Liberty Park precinct, National Guard Armory at 329 Liberty Road.

District 3

• Concord precinct, Christian Hope Baptist Church at 301 Lasalle St.

• Maryland Heights precinct, Maryland Heights recreation building at 111 Dumas Drive.

• Natchez Public Schools precinct, David R. Steckler Multi-purpose Building at 311 Liberty Road.

• Palestine precinct, Liberty Road Volunteer Fire Department at 1196 Liberty Road.

District 4

• Pine Ridge precinct, District 4 barn at 176 Foster Mound Road.

• Carpenter precinct, Rose Hill Baptist Church at 607 1/2 Madison St.

• Morgantown precinct, Morgantown School at 101 Cottage Home Drive.

• Northside precinct, Frazier School at 1445 George F. West Blvd.

District 5

• Washington precinct, New Hope Baptist Church at 417 Morgantown Road.

• Oakland precinct, Lovely Lane Methodist Church at 65 Morgantown Road.

• Airport precinct, airport firehouse at 434 Airport Road.

• Foster Mound precinct, District 5 Fire Station at 228 Foster Mound Road.

In Adams County, races include those for U.S. Senate and Mississippi’s third congressional district. The races for the area’s judicial seat on the state court of appeals and the circuit and chancery court judgeships are uncontested.

The race for Adams County Court judge has six contenders. The candidates are running without party affiliation because judicial seats are nonpartisan.

A vote “yes” for Mississippi House Concurrent Resolution 30 will guarantee the right to hunt and fish in the State of Mississippi as a constitutional privilege for its citizens.

Adams County voters will be voting in the following races:

U.S. Senate – Mississippi

• Travis W. Childers (D)

• Thad Cochran (R)

• Shawn O’Hara (Reform)

U.S. House of Representatives, District 3

• Gregg Harper (R)

• Douglas MacArthur (Doug) Magee (D)

• Roger Gerrard (I)

• Barbara Dale Washer (Reform)

Court of Appeals, District 4 Position 1

• Virginia Carlton

Chancery Court, District 17-1

• E. Vincent Davis

Chancery Court, District 17-2

• George Ward

Circuit Court Judge, District 6-1

• Lillie Blackmon Sanders

Circuit Court Judge, District 6-2

• Forrest Al Johnson

Adams County Court Judge

• Walt Brown

• Lucian Lamar Bullen III

• Patricia F. Dunmore

• Brandi Lewis

• Scott J. Pintard

• Scott F. Slover

State of Mississippi House Concurrent Resolution 30

This proposed constitutional amendment establishes hunting, fishing, and the harvesting of wildlife, including by the use of traditional methods, as a constitutional right subject only to such regulations and restrictions that promote wildlife conservation and management as the Legislature may prescribe by general law.

• Yes

• No