The board of supervisors of each county and the governing authorities of each municipality shall use optical mark reading equipment or direct recording electronic voting equipment that complies with the specifications provided by law. The election commissioners may conduct special and municipal elections, as well as any necessary runoff elections, by paper ballot when the election commissioners determine that administration of an election by paper ballot will be less expensive than administration of the same election by optical mark reading equipment or direct recording electronic voting equipment.
Miss. Code Ann. § 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
Known as the Mississippi Election Code
The act spans §§ 23–23 (378 sections).
Applied in 1 court decision — leading case Wilbourn v. Hobson (1992)
Most recently applied in Wilbourn v. Hobson (July 1992)
Laws, 1986, ch. 495, § 117; Laws, 2005, ch. 534, § 15; Laws, 2017, ch. 441, § 86, eff from and after July 1, 2017.
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