About 550 voters who cast ballots at St. Aloysius High School might vote in a new location during this year’s primary and general elections.

The polling place will be moved to Spring Hill M.B. Church, 815 Mission 66, in time for party primaries Aug. 2 and the Nov. 8 general ballot if church officials and Warren County supervisors agree on a lease to house the precinct.

Paperwork to that effect should appear on the agenda for the supervisors’ next formal meeting, Monday morning, Board President Richard George said.

Supervisors based their decision on concerns heard after the past two election cycles of cramped parking and equally tight space for voters on machines placed in the gym hallway.

Church officials should approve terms of a lease this week, District 2 Supervisor William Banks said.

The precinct’s name will remain St. Aloysius on printed ballots and other official election documents, as supervisors will not include a name change as part of its notification to the Department of Justice.

Members of the community and the county board are usually interviewed by the DOJ when precinct locations are changed, as part of federal voting rights law.

If approved as expected, it would become the eighth of Warren’s 22 precincts to have moved and the second shift in three years.

In 2008, the Oak Ridge precinct moved to Bradley Chapel United Methodist Church from its previous home at Oak Ridge Grocery.

In Warren County, voters will decide races in eight statewide races and 24 district-level and countywide offices. Also, voters will decide the fate of three initiatives placed on the ballot by separate petitions — definition of a person, voter identification and eminent domain.

Qualifying ends March 1 for statewide and local races and June 1 for legislative posts.

All five county supervisors will seek new terms this year. District 1 Supervisor David McDonald faces a primary challenge from businessman Joe Channell. District 5 Supervisor Richard George, an independent, has drawn one opponent, J.W. Carroll, an independent.

So far, supervisors Charles Selmon, William Banks and Bill Lauderdale have not drawn challengers.

City Clerk Walter Osborne, a Democrat, and retired health worker Donna Hardy, a Republican, have filed paperwork to run for chancery clerk to succeed Dot McGee, who is retiring. Sheriff Martin Pace has filed to run for a fourth full term.

All three area legislators, state Reps. George Flaggs, D-Vicksburg, and Alex Monsour, R-Vicksburg, and state Sen. Briggs Hopson III, R-Vicksburg, plan to seek re-election. So far, only Monsour has filed officially.

Races for governor and lieutenant governor, usually the contests that drive total turnout for the election, top the ballot.

For governor, Bryant is opposed by Gulfport businessman Dave Dennis, Pearl River County Supervisor Hudson Holliday and Department of Revenue employee James Broadwater for the Republican nod.

Clarksdale businessman Bill Luckett and Hattiesburg Mayor Johnny DuPree have qualified as Democrats.

State Sen. Billy Hewes, R-Gulfport, has filed for the lieutenant governor’s race.

State Treasurer Tate Reeves has not filed officially, but is expected to enter the primary versus Hewes. State Sen. Lee Yancey, R-Brandon, is the lone official candidate for Reeves’ post.

Attorney General Jim Hood, the lone Democrat among eight statewide officials, seeks a fourth term and, so far, has picked up opposition on the Republican side from Public Safety Commissioner Steve Simpson.

State Auditor Stacey Pickering, a Republican from Laurel, has filed for a second term for the office. Commissioner of Insurance Mike Chaney, formerly Vicksburg’s state senator, has filed for a second term regulating the insurance industry and functioning as state fire marshal.

Three Republicans — Max Phillips, of Taylorsville, state Rep. Dannie Reed, R-Ackerman, and state Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, R-Brookhaven — have filed to succeed incumbent Lester Spell, who isn’t seeking re-election.

Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann has not qualified but is expected to seek the office a second time.

Central District Transportation Commissioner Dick Hall, a Republican, has put in for another term with the commission that oversees the Mississippi Department of Transportation.