Mississippi Code
Miss. Code Ann. § 23-15-266 (2026)
Executive committee authorized to enter into agreements regarding conduct of elections if certain criteria met
✓ current as of July 2026
A county or municipal executive committee shall be eligible to enter into written agreements with a circuit or municipal clerk or a county or municipal election commission as provided for in Section 23-15-239(2), 23-15-265(2), 23-15-267(4), 23-15-333(4), 23-15-335(2) or 23-15-597(2), only if the political party with which such county or municipal executive committee is affiliated:
- (a) Has cast for its candidate for Governor in the last two (2) gubernatorial elections ten percent (10%) of the total vote cast for governor; or
- (b) Has cast for its candidate for Governor in three (3) of the last five (5) gubernatorial elections twenty-five percent (25%) of the total vote cast for Governor.
Laws, 2001, ch. 523, § 1, eff. 6/20/2001 (the date the United States Attorney General interposed no objection under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965,).
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 2
cases, 2003–2005 · leading case: Waters v. Gnemi, 907 So. 2d 307 (Miss. 2005).
Waters v. Gnemi, 907 So. 2d 307 (Miss. 2005). “Miss.Code Ann. § 23-15-266 (Rev.2001) states: A county or municipal executive committee shall be eligible to enter into written agreements with a circuit or municipal clerk or a county or municipal election commission as provided for in Sections 23-15-239(2), 23-15-265(2),…”
Debra Waters v. James Gnemi (Miss. 2003). “Thus, Redmond handled the 19 See Miss. Code Ann. § 23-15-266 (Rev. 2001). 20 The record reveals that at least several election commissioners had keys to this storage room.”
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