Bill Text: MS SB2268 | 2011 | Regular Session | Engrossed

Mississippi Senate Bill 2268 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Municipal elections; require election managers to be qualified electors of the municipality.

Sponsorship: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Failed) 2011-03-01 - Died In Committee [SB2268 Detail]

Download: Mississippi-2011-SB2268-Engrossed.html

MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE

2011 Regular Session

To: Elections

By: Senator(s) Burton, Jordan

Senate Bill 2268

(As Passed the Senate)

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 23-15-231, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO PROVIDE THAT PERSONS WHO SERVE AS MANAGERS IN MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS SHALL BE QUALIFIED ELECTORS OF THE MUNICIPALITY IN WHICH THE POLLING PLACE IS LOCATED; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:

SECTION 1. Section 23-15-231, Mississippi Code of 1972, is amended as follows:

23-15-231. Prior to every election, the commissioners of election shall appoint three (3) persons for each voting precinct to be managers of the election, one (1) of whom shall be designated by the commissioners of election as election bailiff. Such managers shall not all be of the same political party if suitable persons of different political parties can be found in the district. If any person appointed shall fail to attend and serve, the managers present, if any, may designate someone to fill his place; and if the commissioners of election fail to make the appointments or in case of the failure of all those appointed to attend and serve, any three (3) qualified electors present when the polls should be opened may act as managers. * * * Any person appointed to be manager or act as manager shall be a qualified elector of the county in which the polling place is located, except in the case of municipal elections. In municipal elections any person appointed to be manager or act as manager shall be a qualified elector of the municipality in which the polling place is located.

SECTION 2. The Attorney General of the State of Mississippi shall submit this act, immediately upon approval by the Governor, or upon approval by the Legislature subsequent to a veto, to the Attorney General of the United States or to the United States District Court for the District of Columbia in accordance with the provisions of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, as amended and extended.

SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after the date it is effectuated under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, as amended and extended.