Mississippi Statutes § 23-15-913 Judges to be available to hear and resolve election day disputes
Statute Text
The judges listed and selected to hear election disputes, as provided in Section
23-15-951
, shall be available on election day to immediately hear and resolve any election day disputes. The rules for filing pleadings shall be relaxed to carry out the purposes of this section. The judges selected shall perform no other judicial duties on election day. The Supreme Court shall make judges available to hear disputes in the county in which the disputes occur but no judge shall hear disputes in the district or county in which he or she was elected nor shall any judge hear any dispute in which any potential conflict may arise. Each judge shall be fair and impartial and shall be assigned on that basis.
Source
Laws, 1999 , ch. 301 , § 15 ; Laws, 2012 , ch. 473 , § 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).
History
Amended by Laws, 2017 , ch. 441 , HB 467 , 154 , eff. 7/1/2017 .
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