Mississippi Regulations § 1-17-1.1 Definitions

A. "Absent Voter" means a voter who has submitted a valid absentee ballot application under Miss. Code Ann. Section 23-15-627 and is authorized to cast an absentee ballot.

B. "Absentee Ballot" means a ballot provided to a voter, prior to election day, who has submitted an absentee ballot application pursuant to Miss. Code Ann. Section 23-15-627 and Section 23-15-715 .

C. "Official in charge of the election" means either a county election commissioner, county party executive committee member, or circuit clerk for county elections, and municipal election commissioner, municipal party executive committee member, or municipal clerk for municipal election, who is/are responsible for the conducting elections within their individual jurisdictions and type of election.

D. "Poll Manager" means an election official appointed by the local election officials in charge of the election, pursuant to applicable laws, to operate the polling place and aid in conducting an election by performing duties prescribed by applicable law.

E. "Polling Place" means a location, designated by the county board of supervisors for each county or the local governing authority for each municipality, at which voters in the district, to which the precinct is assigned, may appear and cast their ballot.

F. "Registrar" means an official appointed by the State Board of Election Commissioners pursuant to Miss. Code Ann. Section 23-15-223 . The Registrar is the clerk of the county, unless the State Board of Election Commissioners finds the circuit clerk to be an improper person to register voters. For municipal elections, the registrar is the municipal clerk.

G. "Resolution Board" means an group of individuals consisting of an odd number of not less than three registered voters of the county, or municipality for municipal elections, appointed by the officials in charge of the election to process absentee ballots, review blank, overvoted, undervoted, and damaged ballots, and to transfer non-scannable ballots to scannable ballots pursuant to Miss. Code Ann. § 23-15-523 .

H. "Statewide Elections Management System" or "SEMS" means the master voter roll for the State of Mississippi.