Mississippi Regulations § 1-16-1.1 Definitions

A. "Acceptable Photographic Identification" means a current and valid:

1) Mississippi driver's license,

2) Identification card, including, but not limited to, an employee identification card containing a photograph of the elector, issued by a branch, department, agency or entity of the State of Mississippi,

3) United States passport,

4) Employee identification card containing a photograph of the elector issued by any branch, department, agency or entity of the United States government,

5) Mississippi license containing a photograph of the elector to carry a pistol or revolver,

6) Tribal identification card containing a photograph of the elector,

7) United States military identification card containing a photograph of the elector,

8) Student identification card, containing a photograph of the elector, issued by an accredited college, university or community or junior college in the State of Mississippi,

9) Mississippi Voter Identification Card, and

10) Photo identification issued by any branch, department, agency or entity of the United States government or any state government including, but not limited to, a driver's license issued by a state other than Mississippi.

B. "Accredited college, university, community or junior college in the State of Mississippi" means a college, university, community college or junior college approved by the Mississippi Commission on College Accreditation.

C. "Business Days" means those days on which each Registrar's office is open for business, including those Saturdays on which each Registrar's office is open for purposes as provided by statute.

D. "Current" means the document has no expiration date or has an issuance date not more than ten (10) years prior to the date the document is presented.

E. "EVVE" means the Electronic Verification of Vital Events system.

F. "Mississippi Voter Identification Card" means a card issued by the State of Mississippi through the individual offices of each county Registrar pursuant to Miss. Code Ann. Section 23-15-7 , solely for the purpose of identifying a qualified elector by photographic identification who presents to a Registrar, Municipal Clerk or polling place to vote.

G. "Photo Identity Document" means a valid, but not current document, containing the elector's name and a photograph that fairly depicts the elector, issued by any branch, department, agency, division or entity of the United States government or any state government.

H. "Qualified Elector", as defined by Miss. Code Ann. Section 23-15-11 , means every inhabitant of the state of Mississippi, except persons adjudicated to be non compos mentis, who is a citizen of the United States, eighteen (18) years old and upwards, who has resided in the state of Mississippi for thirty (30) days and for thirty (30) days in the county in which he or she seeks to vote, and for thirty (30) days in the incorporated municipality in which he or she seeks to vote, and who has been duly registered as an elector pursuant to Miss. Code Ann. Section 23-15-33 , and who has never been convicted of any crime provided within Section 241 of the Mississippi Constitution of 1890.

I. "Registrar" means each of the eighty-two (82) county registrars of elections, appointed by the State Board of Election Commissioners, pursuant to Miss. Code Ann. Section 23-15-223 , and each deputy registrar as authorized by law.

J. "Receipt for the Mississippi Voter Identification Card" means a document, issued by the State of Mississippi through the individual offices of each county Registrar pursuant to Miss. Code Ann. Section 23-15-631 , solely for the purpose of providing temporary Acceptable Photographic Identification to a qualified elector by who presents to a Registrar, Municipal Clerk or polling place to vote within forty-five (45) days after issuance.

K. "SEMS" means the Statewide Elections Management System which is Mississippi's electronic voter roll.

L. "State-licensed care facility" means an institution for the aged or infirm as defined by Miss. Code Ann. Section 43-11-1 .

M. "UOCAVA" means the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act.

N. "Valid" means a document is what it purports to be, and is not a fake or forgery.