Bill Text: MS HB1523 | 2020 | Regular Session | Enrolled
Bill Title: Poll managers; remove limitation on additional that election commissioners may appoint.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2020-06-25 - Approved by Governor [HB1523 Detail]
Download: Mississippi-2020-HB1523-Enrolled.html
MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE
2020 Regular Session
To: Apportionment and Elections
By: Representatives Beckett, Anthony
House Bill 1523
(As Sent to Governor)
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 23-15-235, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO REMOVE THE LIMITATION ON THE ADDITIONAL POLL MANAGERS THAT THE ELECTION COMMISSIONERS MAY APPOINT FOR EACH 1,000 REGISTERED VOTERS IN EACH VOTING PRECINCT ABOVE THE FIRST 500; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:
SECTION 1. Section 23-15-235, Mississippi Code of 1972, is amended as follows:
23-15-235. In addition to
the poll managers appointed pursuant to Section 23-15-231, for the first five
hundred (500) registered voters in each voting precinct, the election
commissioners may, in their discretion, appoint not more than three (3) persons
to serve as poll managers of the election. The election commissioners may, in
their discretion, appoint * * *three (3) additional persons to serve as poll managers for
each one thousand (1,000) registered voters or fraction thereof in each voting
precinct above the first five hundred (500), * * *
as determined necessary by the election commissioners and approved by the
board of supervisors. Any person appointed as poll manager shall be a
qualified elector of the county in which the voting precinct is located.
SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2020.