Mississippi Code — 23
Browse 436 sections in division 23 of the Mississippi code. Each section page includes the full statutory text, official source links, and citation guidance.
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- § 23-1-4. Repealed.
- § 23-1-5-23-1-67. Repealed.
- § 23-1-81-23-1-103. Repealed.
- § 23-3-1-23-3-39. Repealed.
- § 23-3-41-23-3-47. Repealed.
- § 23-3-49-23-3-63. Repealed.
- § 23-3-65-23-3-71. Repealed.
- § 23-5-1-23-5-15. Repealed.
- § 23-5-17. Repealed.
- § 23-5-19-23-5-63. Repealed.
- § 23-5-65-23-5-69. Repealed.
- § 23-5-71-23-5-131. Repealed.
- § 23-5-133. Repealed.
- § 23-5-134-23-5-139. Repealed.
- § 23-5-140-23-5-142. Repealed.
- § 23-5-143-23-5-247. Repealed.
- § 23-5-301-23-5-313. Repealed.
- § 23-7-5-23-7-51. Repealed.
- § 23-7-301-23-7-325. Repealed.
- § 23-7-501-23-7-525. Repealed.
- § 23-9-1-23-9-31. Repealed.
- § 23-9-301-23-9-315. Repealed.
- § 23-9-401-23-9-431. Repealed.
- § 23-9-501-23-9-527. Repealed.
- § 23-9-601-23-9-607. Repealed.
- § 23-9-609. Repealed.
- § 23-9-701-23-9-707. Repealed.
- § 23-11-1-23-11-21. Repealed.
- § 23-13-1-23-13-23. Repealed.
- § 23-15-1. Short title.
- § 23-15-3. Definition of “ballot box.”
- § 23-15-5. Elections Support Fund created; use of funds; deposit of portion of monies into State General Fund.
- § 23-15-7. Mississippi Voter Identification Card.
- § 23-15-11. Qualifications, generally.
- § 23-15-13. Change of residency to new ward or voting precinct within same municipality.
- § 23-15-14. Repealed.
- § 23-15-15. Documentation required of naturalized citizens.
- § 23-15-17. Reporting and investigation of false registration.
- § 23-15-19. Persons convicted of certain crimes not to be registered.
- § 23-15-21. Non-citizen not to register or vote.
- § 23-15-31. Elections to which subarticle applicable; duty, power and authority of certain election officials.
- § 23-15-33. Registrar to register voters.
- § 23-15-35. Clerk of municipality to be registrar; registration books; form of application for registration; registration of county electors by clerk.
- § 23-15-37. Keeping registration books; registration of voters; voter registration in public schools.
- § 23-15-39. Form of application for registration; allowances for office supplies; determination on application; notice to applicant; assistance to applicant; voter registration number; fees and costs; forwarding of application.
- § 23-15-41. Endorsement of application; completion of registration.
- § 23-15-43. Automatic review where person is not approved for registration.
- § 23-15-45. Notice to person denied registration.
- § 23-15-47. Registering to vote by mail-in application.
- § 23-15-49. Change of voter registration information by elector on secured website.
- § 23-15-61. Appeal by person denied registration.
- § 23-15-63. Appeal by other elector of allowance of registration.
- § 23-15-65. Determination of appeals at September meeting of board of election commissioners.
- § 23-15-67. Determination of appeals at other meetings.
- § 23-15-69. Appeals heard de novo; finality of decisions.
- § 23-15-71. Appeal from decision of commissioners.
- § 23-15-73. Duty of commissioners upon appeal.
- § 23-15-75. Proceedings in circuit court.
- § 23-15-77. Costs.
- § 23-15-79. Date of registration to vote.
- § 23-15-91. No personal liability for error of judgment.
- § 23-15-93. Penalties.
- § 23-15-95. Injunctive relief.
- § 23-15-111. Repealed.
- § 23-15-113. Contents of voter registration files; storage of voter registration records.
- § 23-15-114. Repealed.
- § 23-15-115. Transfer of voter registration necessitated by change in boundaries of legislative districts.
- § 23-15-117. Repealed.
- § 23-15-119. Repealed.
- § 23-15-121. Loss or destruction of electronic voting record.
- § 23-15-123. Confusion of registration books.
- § 23-15-125. Form of pollbooks.
- § 23-15-127. Repealed.
- § 23-15-129. Repealed.
- § 23-15-131. Repealed.
- § 23-15-133. Repealed.
- § 23-15-135. Registrar to keep master voter roll and pollbooks and provide location for accepting applications for Mississippi Voter Identification Cards.
- § 23-15-137. Repealed.
- § 23-15-151. List of persons convicted of certain crimes to be kept by circuit clerk and entered into Statewide Elections Management System; removal of disenfranchised voters from system.
- § 23-15-153. Revision of county voter roll by election commissioners; removal of voters from roll; amount and limitations of per diem payments to election commissioners; distribution of master voter roll to municipal registrars; certification of hours worked; number of days in calendar year for which election commissioners entitled to receive compensation.
- § 23-15-159. Repealed.
- § 23-15-160. Repealed.
- § 23-15-161. Attendance and assistance of county registrar at meeting of county election commissioners.
- § 23-15-163. Purpose of subarticle.
- § 23-15-165. Implementation of centralized database of registered voters; functions; format; advisory committee.
- § 23-15-167. Repealed.
- § 23-15-169. Secretary of State to establish administrative complaint procedure for handling grievances.
- § 23-15-169. 1.
- § 23-15-169. 2.
- § 23-15-169. 3.
- § 23-15-169. 4.
- § 23-15-169. 5.
- § 23-15-169. 6.
- § 23-15-169. 7.
- § 23-15-171. Primary elections.
- § 23-15-173. General elections; applicability of this section and Section 23-15-171 to certain special or private charter municipalities.
- § 23-15-191. Primary elections.
- § 23-15-193. Officers to be elected at general state election.
- § 23-15-195. Elections to be by ballot in one day.
- § 23-15-197. Times for holding elections.
- § 23-15-211. Composition and duties of State Board of Election Commissioners; elections training seminar; certification of seminar participants; compensation of commissioners attending seminar; authorization by Secretary of State of additional training days.
- § 23-15-211. 1.
- § 23-15-212. Repealed.
- § 23-15-213. Election of county election commissioners.
- § 23-15-213. Election of county election commissioners.
- § 23-15-215. Performance by board of supervisors of election commissioners’ duties.
- § 23-15-217. County election commissioner authorized to be candidate for other office; resignation from office; duties and powers of board of supervisors where election of county election commissioner is contested.
- § 23-15-219. Employment by board of election commissioners of investigators, legal counsel and others.
- § 23-15-221. Appointment and duties of municipal election commissioners; election by municipality to abolish municipal election commissioners in the municipality’s county; municipal election commissioners’ duties assumed by county election commissioners.
- § 23-15-223. County registrar shall be circuit court clerk unless found improper; appointment of deputy registrars; liability of registrar for malfeasance or nonfeasance of deputy registrar; computer skills training course.
- § 23-15-225. Compensation of registrars.
- § 23-15-227. Compensation of poll managers.
- § 23-15-229. Compensation of municipal poll managers and other workers.
- § 23-15-231. Appointment of poll managers; designation of bailiff.
- § 23-15-233. Duties of poll managers.
- § 23-15-235. Appointment of additional poll managers.
- § 23-15-237. Oath of office for poll managers.
- § 23-15-239. Mandatory training of poll managers; single, comprehensive poll manager training program; certified poll managers.
- § 23-15-240. Appointment of student interns to serve during elections.
- § 23-15-241. Election bailiff to keep peace.
- § 23-15-243. Selection of election bailiff if none designated.
- § 23-15-245. Duties of election bailiff; polls to be open and clear.
- § 23-15-247. Ballot boxes.
- § 23-15-249. Procedure when pollbooks or ballot boxes not distributed.
- § 23-15-251. Duties of poll manager designated to receive and distribute ballots.
- § 23-15-253. Poll managers to be furnished stationery and blank forms.
- § 23-15-255. Voting compartments, shelves and tables; information required to be posted at precinct polling place on election day.
- § 23-15-257. Duties of marshal or chief of police in municipal elections.
- § 23-15-259. Authority of boards of supervisors to allow compensation of officers rendering services in registration and elections and reasonable sum to supply voting compartments, tables and shelves.
- § 23-15-261. Certification of service as poll managers.
- § 23-15-263. Duties of county executive committees at primary elections.
- § 23-15-265. Meeting of county executive committee; appointment of poll managers by committee.
- § 23-15-266. Executive committee authorized to enter into agreements regarding conduct of elections if certain criteria met.
- § 23-15-267. Primary election ballot boxes; penalty for failure to deliver ballot boxes.
- § 23-15-269. Repealed.
- § 23-15-271. Election integrity assurance committee.
- § 23-15-281. Fixing supervisors districts, voting precincts and voting places; purchase of property and construction, repair, renovation, maintenance, etc. of polling places; availability of facilities for use as polling place.
- § 23-15-283. Alteration of boundaries.
- § 23-15-285. Entry of boundaries and alterations thereto on minutes of board of supervisors; limit on number of voters within each precinct or ballot box.
- § 23-15-291. Nomination for state, district, county and county district office to be by primary election.
- § 23-15-293. Voting for and nomination of candidates for state, state district and legislative offices by counties or parts of counties within the districts.
- § 23-15-295. Withdrawal of candidate.
- § 23-15-296. Written notification to Secretary of State.
- § 23-15-297. Fee required to be paid upon entering race for party nomination.
- § 23-15-299. Time for payment of fee; written statement to accompany fee; recordation and disbursement of fee; determination of candidate’s qualifications; declaration of nominee in single candidate race.
- § 23-15-301. Payment of election expenses.
- § 23-15-303. Each political party or organization to hold independent primary election.
- § 23-15-305. Majority vote required for nomination; run-off elections.
- § 23-15-307. Nomination as condition of being placed on general election ballot and holding office.
- § 23-15-309. Nomination for elective municipal office to be made at primary election; fee requirements; determination of candidate’s qualifications.
- § 23-15-311. Payment of municipal primary election expenses.
- § 23-15-313. Selection of temporary executive committee in municipality not having party executive committee; notice to public; county executive committee to serve as municipal executive committee under certain circumstances; person convicted of felony barred from serving as member of municipal executive committee.
- § 23-15-315. Publication of notice to public.
- § 23-15-317. Nomination of nominee when vacancy in nomination occurs between primary election and general election; procedure for withdrawal based upon legitimate nonpolitical reason.
- § 23-15-319. Applicability of chapter to municipal primary elections.
- § 23-15-331. Duties of state executive committee.
- § 23-15-333. Duties of county executive committee; order in which titles of various offices and names of candidates are to be listed on the ballot.
- § 23-15-335. Duties of person designated by county executive committee to distribute ballots.
- § 23-15-351. Authority to print ballots; penalties.
- § 23-15-353. Sufficient ballots to be printed and distributed.
- § 23-15-355. Payment of ballot expenses.
- § 23-15-357. Back and outside of ballot.
- § 23-15-359. Names of candidates to be printed on ballot; filing of petition for office; inapplicability of section to municipal elections; special elections; determination of candidate’s qualifications; declaration of nominee in single candidate race.
- § 23-15-361. Names of municipal office candidates to be printed on ballot; filing of petition for municipal office; determination of candidate’s qualifications; declaration of nominee in single candidate race.
- § 23-15-363. Names of candidates who have not duly withdrawn not omitted from ballot.
- § 23-15-365. Write-in candidates; blank space on general, special and primary election ballots; applicability of section to elections conducted under Sections 23-15-974 through 23-15-985.
- § 23-15-367. Printing of official ballot generally; order in which titles of various offices are to be listed on the ballot; furnishing of sample of official ballot; alphabetical arrangement in primary elections.
- § 23-15-369. Form and substance of proposed constitutional amendment or other public measure.
- § 23-15-371. Loss or destruction of official ballots.
- § 23-15-373. Report regarding lost ballots.
- § 23-15-375. Local issues.
- § 23-15-391. Use of optical mark reading equipment or direct recording electronic voting equipment; use of paper ballot for special, municipal or runoff elections when determined to be less expensive.
- § 23-15-393. Repealed.
- § 23-15-401-23-15-451. Repealed.
- § 23-15-461-23-15-485. Repealed.
- § 23-15-491. Repealed.
- § 23-15-501. Repealed.
- § 23-15-503. Definitions.
- § 23-15-505. Authority to purchase or rent OMR equipment; applicable law.
- § 23-15-507. Construction of OMR equipment.
- § 23-15-509. Repealed.
- § 23-15-511. Form of ballots; posting of sample ballots; ballot security envelopes.
- § 23-15-513. Preparation and delivery of necessary forms and supplies; minimum number of ballots to be printed.
- § 23-15-515. Storage, maintenance, repair and preparation of equipment.
- § 23-15-517. Opening and closing polls; instructing voters; spoiled ballots.
- § 23-15-519. Ballot accounting report; tamper-evident seals for ballot boxes; seal log; delivery of ballot box; return of records and supplies.
- § 23-15-521. Testing of OMR equipment.
- § 23-15-523. Counting vote.
- § 23-15-525. Authority of Secretary of State and election commissioners for the safe and efficient use of OMR equipment; resolution board for rejected ballots.
- § 23-15-531. Direct recording electronic voting equipment (DRE unit) defined.
- § 23-15-531. 1.
- § 23-15-531. 2.
- § 23-15-531. 3.
- § 23-15-531. 4.
- § 23-15-531. 5.
- § 23-15-531. 6.
- § 23-15-531. 7.
- § 23-15-531. 8.
- § 23-15-531. 9.
- § 23-15-531. 10.
- § 23-15-531. 11.
- § 23-15-531. 12.
- § 23-15-531. 13.
- § 23-15-541. Hours polls to be open; designation and duties of initialing poll manager and alternate initialing poll manager; curbside voting authorized for certain individuals; procedure.
- § 23-15-543. Receipt booklet to be kept in polling place, except during adjournment, until enclosed in ballot box.
- § 23-15-545. Entries in pollbook.
- § 23-15-547. Electronic capture of voters’ signatures; paper version may be generated after polls close.
- § 23-15-549. Assistance to voter.
- § 23-15-551. Marking and casting ballot; who may be present in polling room.
- § 23-15-553. Ballots not to be removed before close of polls; procedure regarding spoiled ballots when polls close.
- § 23-15-555. Repealed.
- § 23-15-557. Municipality’s authority to establish precincts and polling places.
- § 23-15-559. Repealed.
- § 23-15-561. Penalties for unlawful lottery.
- § 23-15-563. Qualified elector required to provide identification before voting; kinds of identification; voting by affidavit ballot.
- § 23-15-571. Challenge to voter qualifications.
- § 23-15-573. Certain persons not to vote except by affidavit ballot; form of affidavit ballot envelope; procedure after voting by affidavit ballot when acceptable photo identification was not presented.
- § 23-15-574. Modification of affidavit form by Secretary of State.
- § 23-15-575. Who may vote in primary election.
- § 23-15-577. Presence of credentialed poll watchers and candidates at polling place; presentation of written authorization of candidate or political party by credentialed poll watcher to poll manager; inspection and challenge of qualifications of voter by candidate or credentialed poll watcher; interference in election process by candidates and credentialed poll watchers prohibited.
- § 23-15-579. Procedure when vote challenged.
- § 23-15-581. Closing polls, opening ballot box and counting votes.
- § 23-15-591. Proclamation of results; sealing of ballot box.
- § 23-15-593. Irregularities in ballot box.
- § 23-15-595. Procedure for sealing of ballot box; reopening and resealing.
- § 23-15-597. Canvass of returns and announcement of results by executive committee.
- § 23-15-599. Tabulated statement of party vote.
- § 23-15-600. Forms for reporting election returns.
- § 23-15-601. Canvass of returns and declaration of results by election commissioners; determination of tie vote.
- § 23-15-603. Delivery of returns to Secretary of State.
- § 23-15-605. Ascertainment of vote and declaration of results by Secretary of State; determination of tie vote.
- § 23-15-607. Determination of election for judges of Supreme Court and Court of Appeals.
- § 23-15-609. Determination of election in which city or county is entitled to separate representation in legislature.
- § 23-15-611. Determination of municipal elections; show cause order may be issued for failure to transmit statement certifying names of persons elected.
- § 23-15-613. Reporting of residual votes required for elections in which ballots are generated that are counted by hand or by OMR equipment or the tabulating mechanism of a DRE unit; certain reports required for elections that use voting devices that do not generate ballots.
- § 23-15-621. Short title.
- § 23-15-623. Application to absentee ballots authorized in Subarticles B, C, and D.
- § 23-15-625. Duties of registrar relating to the provision and disbursement of absentee voting applications; request for application by person other than elector seeking to vote by absentee ballot; solicitation of absentee ballot applications for persons staying in skilled nursing facility prohibited; exceptions; maintenance of list of absentee voters; public access to list; placement of absentee ballots in ballot boxes; authority to mail applications to qualified electors; use of Statewide Election Management System.
- § 23-15-627. Distribution of absentee ballot application by registrar; request for absentee ballot application by certain persons on behalf of an elector; form of application.
- § 23-15-629. Applications by persons who are permanently physically disabled; listing of qualified electors; distribution of ballots.
- § 23-15-631. Instructions to absent electors; instructions as constituting substantive law.
- § 23-15-633. Signatures of elector and attesting witness across flap of envelope.
- § 23-15-635. Form of elector’s certificate, attesting witness certification, and voter assistance certificate where county registrar is not attesting witness and voter is not absent voter as defined in the Armed Forces Absentee Voting Law.
- § 23-15-637. Timely casting of ballots.
- § 23-15-639. Examination of absentee ballots at close of polls; counting of ballots.
- § 23-15-641. Grounds for rejection of ballots; procedure.
- § 23-15-643. Examination of affidavits; challenges.
- § 23-15-645. Preservation of materials relative to absentee voters; return of materials to registrar.
- § 23-15-647. Disposition of absentee ballots received after applicable deadlines.
- § 23-15-649. Preparation and printing of absentee voter ballots.
- § 23-15-651. Announcement of results of vote by absentee balloting.
- § 23-15-653. Hours of registrars’ offices on two Saturdays prior to each election.
- § 23-15-657. Requests for absentee ballots by telephone.
- § 23-15-671. Short title.
- § 23-15-673. Definitions.
- § 23-15-675. Right of absentees to vote.
- § 23-15-677. Use of federal postcard application or Federal Write-In-Absentee Ballot.
- § 23-15-679. Preparation and printing of absentee voter ballots.
- § 23-15-681. Absentee ballot envelopes.
- § 23-15-683. Preparation and distribution of ballots for first and second elections; ascertainment by absent voters of candidates in second election.
- § 23-15-685. Distribution of absentee ballot materials upon application.
- § 23-15-687. Applications for absentee ballots; preservation of applications.
- § 23-15-689. Repealed.
- § 23-15-691. Prompt distribution of absentee ballot materials; separation of envelope and other materials; instructions as to notation on envelope and use of ink or indelible pencil.
- § 23-15-692. Federal Write-In Absentee Ballot.
- § 23-15-693. Completion of declaration specified in federal Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act.
- § 23-15-695. Repealed.
- § 23-15-697. Mailing of envelope to registrar.
- § 23-15-699. Transmission of absentee ballots and balloting materials to absent voters and receipt of voted absentee ballots, federal postcard applications and Federal Write-In-Absentee Ballots by mail, facsimile or electronic mail delivery.
- § 23-15-701. Compliance with Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act; Secretary of State granted emergency powers over conduct of elections during armed conflict.
- § 23-15-711. Short title.
- § 23-15-713. Electors qualified to vote as absentees.
- § 23-15-715. Applications for absentee ballots.
- § 23-15-717. Completion of application forms.
- § 23-15-719. Delivery of ballots to applicant; completion of ballots; affidavit; delivery of ballots to registrar.
- § 23-15-721. Procedures applicable to electors temporarily residing outside county and to electors who are physically disabled; mailing of ballots to registrar.
- § 23-15-731. General provisions.
- § 23-15-733. Disposition of ballots received after election.
- § 23-15-735. Delivery of absentee ballots to voters in person.
- § 23-15-751. Penalties for offenses by registrar or commissioner of elections or officers taking affidavits.
- § 23-15-753. Penalties for vote fraud.
- § 23-15-755. Applicability of Sections 23-15-621 through 23-15-735.
- § 23-15-771. Selection of electors at state convention for place on primary election ballot.
- § 23-15-781. Selection of electors of President and Vice-President by qualified electors of state at large.
- § 23-15-783. Applicability of laws regulating general elections.
- § 23-15-785. Certificates of nomination and nominating petitions; preparation of official ballots.
- § 23-15-787. Notification of persons elected.
- § 23-15-789. Meeting of electors; voting; appointments to fill vacancies.
- § 23-15-791. Allowance to electors for travel and for attendance.
- § 23-15-801. Definitions.
- § 23-15-803. Registration of political committees; administrative penalties for failure to comply.
- § 23-15-805. Filing of reports; public inspection and preservation of reports.
- § 23-15-807. Reporting requirements; contributions and disbursements of candidates and political committees.
- § 23-15-809. Statements by persons other than political committees; filing; indices of expenditures.
- § 23-15-811. Penalties.
- § 23-15-813. Civil penalty for failure to file campaign finance disclosure report; notice to candidate of failure to file; assessment of penalty by Mississippi Ethics Commission; hearing; appeal.
- § 23-15-815. Administrative provisions; duties of Secretary of State.
- § 23-15-817. Compilation and dissemination of list of candidates failing to meet filing requirements.
- § 23-15-819. Campaign contributions or expenditures of money or other things of value by foreign nationals prohibited.
- § 23-15-821. Personal use of campaign contributions by elected public officeholders or candidates for public office prohibited; definitions; disposition of unused funds; penalties.