EAdIElection Administration Index

No matching sections in corpus.

This section provides a comprehensive, statutorily-codified right to judicial review of election-official decisions. It explicitly defines standing ('any party aggrieved'), timeline ('no later than fifteen (15) days'), and venue ('circuit court of the county in which the election officials...sits'). The provision further specifies the standard of review (de novo) and appellate procedure, establishing a clear structural mechanism for judicial accountability of election administration decisions.

No section in the FTS-surfaced candidates satisfies this criterion. Best signal: This section prescribes technical requirements for direct-record electronic (DRE) voting systems and does not address the election commission's existence, mandate, or governance structure at all. It contains no reference to constitutional or statutory grounding of a commission, and is therefore wholly irrelevant to COMM.1.

No section in the FTS-surfaced candidates satisfies this criterion. Best signal: This section governs appointment of a U.S. Senator to fill vacancies and is not relevant to election administration commission structure. It grants unilateral appointment power to the Governor with no involvement by legislature or judiciary. The section does not establish, modify, or authorize any election administration commission, and therefore cannot satisfy a criterion measuring multi-branch appointment of commission members.

The statute provides fixed four-year terms with clear commencement dates, satisfying the fixed-length requirement. However, the section establishes simultaneous elections of all five commissioners every four years, providing no staggered cycle—all terms expire together. More critically, the statute contains no statutory grounds for removal, which is a required element of term protection under COMM.3. Without removal grounds, commissioners serve at will and lack genuine insulation from arbitrary removal.

No section in the FTS-surfaced candidates satisfies this criterion. Best signal: Section § 23-15-785 concerns the preparation and certification of presidential election ballots and elector nominations. It contains no provisions whatsoever governing the composition, appointment, or political balance of any election commission. The section addresses procedural requirements for nominating petitions, elector consent statements, and ballot preparation, but is silent on commission structure or balance requirements.

No section in the FTS-surfaced candidates satisfies this criterion. Best signal: This section governs absentee ballot distribution procedures and material logistics. It contains no provisions regarding election authority budgeting, funding lines, or protection against mid-cycle reallocation. The criterion requires statutory establishment of independent funding structure; this section addresses none of those institutional elements.

No matching sections in corpus.

No matching sections in corpus.

No section in the FTS-surfaced candidates satisfies this criterion. Best signal: This section addresses compensation for poll workers and temporary election officials (managers, clerks, returning officers) paid per election, not career professional staff. It establishes no civil-service protections, merit-based employment standards, or career tenure safeguards for any election authority personnel. The statute is solely a compensation schedule for ad-hoc election workers, not a framework protecting career staff from political removal.

The section statutorily mandates training for election managers (poll workers) with clearly defined frequency (at minimum once per twelve months preceding an election, plus an annual eight-hour course every four years) and content (proper administration of elections and polling place operation). The statute also prescribes that the Secretary of State shall develop training criteria and approve courses. This satisfies the STAFF.2 criterion for mandatory, statutorily-grounded training with defined content and frequency.

No matching sections in corpus.

The statute codifies a mandatory pre-election and post-election testing protocol with public notice, multi-party witnessing, and specific test procedures (pre-audited ballots, overvote detection). However, this section addresses *local operational testing* of equipment before use, not the upstream *vendor certification process* (criteria for equipment approval, evaluator qualifications, timeline for state-level certification, public-comment period for new equipment). The criterion CERT.1 asks whether the certification process itself—the gatekeeping by which equipment is deemed eligible for use—is codified; this section ensures tested equipment works correctly, but does not establish the statutory framework by which vendors' equipment is initially certified for sale or deployment in Mississippi.

No matching sections in corpus.

No matching sections in corpus.