Bill Text: MS HB802 | 2016 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Ballots; revise number required to be printed.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: (Failed) 2016-02-23 - Died In Committee [HB802 Detail]
Download: Mississippi-2016-HB802-Introduced.html
MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE
2016 Regular Session
To: Apportionment and Elections
By: Representative Hale
House Bill 802
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTIONS 23-15-513 AND 23-15-423, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO REVISE THE NUMBER OF BALLOTS THAT ARE REQUIRED TO BE PRINTED FOR CERTAIN ELECTIONS; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:
SECTION 1. Section 23-15-513, Mississippi Code of 1972, is amended as follows:
23-15-513. (1) The official ballots, sample ballots and other necessary forms and supplies of the forms and description required by this chapter or required for the conduct of elections with an electronic voting system shall be prepared and furnished by the same official, in the same manner and time, and delivered to the same officials as provided by law with respect to paper ballots that are to be counted manually.
(2) For each primary or general election, the number of official ballots that shall be printed shall be a number that is equal to not less than seventy-five percent (75%) of the registered voters eligible to vote in the election.
(3) The requirements of subsection (2) of this section shall not apply to runoff elections, any election that does not cover at least fifty percent (50%) of a county in which the election is held or any county using paper ballots that have more than fifty thousand (50,000) registered voters.
SECTION 2. Section 23-15-423, Mississippi Code of 1972, is amended as follows:
23-15-423. (1) Voting precincts in which voting machines are to be used may be altered, divided or combined so as to provide that each voting precinct in which the machine is to be used shall contain, as nearly as may be, five hundred (500) voters, and that each voting precinct in which two (2) machines are to be used shall contain, as nearly as may be, one thousand (1,000) voters, and that each voting precinct in which three (3) machines are to be used shall contain, as nearly as may be, one thousand five hundred (1,500) voters; however, nothing in this subsection shall prevent any voting precinct from containing a greater number than above.
(2) For each primary or general election, the officials in charge of the election shall utilize at least seventy-five percent (75%) of all the voting machines available to the county or municipality, as the case may be.
(3) The requirements of subsections (1) and (2) of this section shall not apply to runoff elections, any election that does not cover at least fifty percent (50%) of a county in which the election is held or any county using paper ballots that have more than fifty thousand (50,000) registered voters.
SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2016.
