MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE
2015 Regular Session
To: Apportionment and Elections
By: Representative Denny
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 23-15-125, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO CLARIFY WHEN AN ELECTION COMMISSIONER SHALL ERASE A NAME FROM THE POLLBOOK; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:
SECTION 1. Section 23-15-125, Mississippi Code of 1972, is amended as follows:
23-15-125. The pollbook of
each voting precinct shall designate the voting precinct for which it is to be
used, and shall be ruled in appropriate columns, with printed or written
headings, as follows: date of registration; voter registration number; name of
electors; date of birth; and a number of blank columns for the dates of
elections. Except as otherwise provided in Section 23-15-692, all who register
within thirty (30) days before any regular election shall be entered on the
pollbooks immediately after such election, and not before, so that the
pollbooks will show only the names of those qualified to vote at such
election. When election commissioners determine that any elector is
disqualified from voting, by reason of removal from the * * * voting precinct, or
other cause, that fact shall be noted on the registration book and his name
shall be erased from the pollbook. Nothing in this section shall preclude the
use of electronic pollbooks.
SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2015.