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Mississippi Statutes § 23-15-889 Prohibitions against buying or selling vote or offering to do so; penalties

⤴ Up to Article 27: Regulation of Elections

Statute Text

It shall be unlawful for any person to sell or offer to sell his or her vote and it shall be likewise unlawful for any person to offer money or anything of substantial value to anyone for his vote. Anyone violating the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined not less than Fifty Dollars ($50.00) nor more than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00), or imprisoned not more than six (6) months, or both.

Source

Derived from 1942 Code § 3137 [Codes, 1906, § 3719; Hemingway's 1917, § 6411; 1930, § 5890; repealed by Laws, 1986, ch. 495, § 346]; Laws, 1986, ch. 495, § 272, eff. 1/1/1987.

History

Amended by Laws, 2017 , ch. 441 , HB 467 , 183 , eff. 7/1/2017 .

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