Bill Text: MS SB2268 | 2013 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Voter; define all convicted felons as not qualified.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Failed) 2013-02-05 - Died In Committee [SB2268 Detail]
Download: Mississippi-2013-SB2268-Introduced.html
MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE
2013 Regular Session
To: Elections; Judiciary, Division B
By: Senator(s) Frazier
Senate Bill 2268
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 23-15-11, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO PROVIDE THAT ANY PERSON CONVICTED OF A CRIME UPON COMPLETION OF THE SENTENCE IMPOSED SHALL BE AUTOMATICALLY ELIGIBLE TO VOTE; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:
SECTION 1. Section 23-15-11, Mississippi Code of 1972, is amended as follows:
[Until the date Chapter 526, Laws of 2012, is effectuated under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, as amended and extended, this section shall read as follows:]
23-15-11. (1) Every inhabitant of this state shall be a qualified elector in and for the country, municipality and voting precinct of his residence, and shall be entitled to vote in any election if the person:
(a) * * *
Is a citizen of the United States of America * * *;
(b) Is eighteen
(18) years old * * * or older;
(c) * * * Has resided in this state for thirty (30)
days, and for thirty (30) days in the county in which he seeks to vote,
and for thirty (30) days in the incorporated municipality in which he seeks to
vote, and who has been duly registered as an elector under Section 23-15-33 * * *;
(2) Any person who
will be eighteen (18) years of age or older on or before the date of the
general election and who is duly registered to vote not less than thirty (30)
days before the primary election associated with the general election, may vote
in the primary election even though the person has not reached his or her
eighteenth birthday at the time that the person seeks to vote * * * in the primary election.
(3) No others than
those specified in this section shall be entitled, or shall be allowed, to vote * * * in any election.
[From and after the date Chapter 526, Laws of 2012, is effectuated under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, as amended and extended, this section shall read as follows:]
23-15-11. Every inhabitant of this state, except persons adjudicated to be non compos mentis, who is a citizen of the United States of America, eighteen (18) years old and upwards, who has resided in this state for thirty (30) days and for thirty (30) days in the county in which he seeks to vote, and for thirty (30) days in the incorporated municipality in which he seeks to vote, and who has been duly registered as an elector under Section 23-15-33, and who has never been convicted of vote fraud or of any crime listed in Section 241, Mississippi Constitution of 1890, shall be a qualified elector in and for the county, municipality and voting precinct of his residence, and shall be entitled to vote at any election upon compliance with Section 23-15-563. Any person who will be eighteen (18) years of age or older on or before the date of the general election and who is duly registered to vote not less than thirty (30) days before the primary election associated with the general election, may vote in the primary election even though the person has not reached his or her eighteenth birthday at the time that the person seeks to vote at the primary election. No others than those specified in this section shall be entitled, or shall be allowed, to vote at any election.
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.
