Mississippi Code

Miss. Code Ann. § 23-15-33 (2026)

Registrar to register voters

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(1) Every person entitled to be registered as an elector in compliance with the laws of this state and who has signed his or her name on and properly completed the application for registration to vote shall be registered by the county registrar in the voting precinct of the residence of such person through the Statewide Elections Management System.

(2) Every person entitled to be registered as an elector in compliance with the laws of this state and who registers to vote pursuant to the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 shall be registered by the county registrar in the voting precinct of the residence of such person through the Statewide Elections Management System.

Derived from 1972 Code § 23-5-31 [Codes, 1880, § 106; 1892, § 3611; 1906, § 4117; Hemingway's 1917, § 6751; 1930, § 6184; 1942, § 3212; Laws, 1955, Ex ch. 99; Laws, 1962, ch. 569, § 2; Laws, 1965 Ex Sess, ch. 13, § 1; Laws, 1978, ch. 393, § 2; Laws, 1984, Ch. 460, § 2; repealed by Laws, 1986, ch. 495, § 335]; en. Laws, 1986, ch. 495, § 9; Laws, 1991, ch. 440, § 7; Laws, 2000, ch. 430, § 1; Laws, 2006, ch. 574, § 1; Laws, 2012, ch. 471, § 1, eff. 9/6/2012 (the date the United States Attorney General interposed no objection under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965) .

Amended by Laws, 2017, ch. 441, HB 467, 7, eff. 7/1/2017.

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 1 case, 2014–2014 · leading case: True the Vote v. Hosemann, 43 F. Supp. 3d 693 (S.D. Miss. 2014).

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True the Vote v. Hosemann, 43 F. Supp. 3d 693 (S.D. Miss. 2014). “§ 1973gg(a)(2) (noting that "it is the duty of the Federal, State, and local governments to promote the exercise of” the right to vote); id., § 1973gg(b) (stating that the NVRA was designed "to make it possible for Federal, State, and local governments to implement this…”

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