MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972
As Amended

SEC. 23-15-391. Voting machines, electronic voting systems or optical mark reading equipment to be used unless paper ballot will be less expensive.

The board of supervisors of each county in the State of Mississippi shall, by January 1, 1989, utilize voting machines, electronic voting systems, or optical mark reading equipment which shall comply with the specifications provided by law. Thereafter, the election commissioners may designate an election to be administered by paper ballot where the election commissioners clearly determine that administration of an election by paper ballot will be less expensive than administration of the same election by voting machines, electronic voting systems, or optical mark reading equipment.

SOURCES: Laws, 1986, ch. 495, Sec. 117, eff from and after January 1, 1987.


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