Mississippi Code
Absentee Balloting Procedures Law
§ 23-15-633. Signatures of elector and attesting witness across flap of envelope

On any envelope where the elector's signature and the signature of the attesting witness are required, the signature lines and the signatures shall be across the flap of the envelope to insure the integrity of the ballot and the following shall be printed on the flap on the back of the envelope in bold print and in a distinguishing color: "YOUR VOTE WILL BE REJECTED AND NOT COUNTED IF THIS ENVELOPE IS NOT SIGNED ACROSS THE FLAP OF THIS ENVELOPE BY YOU AND AN ATTESTING WITNESS."

Structure Mississippi Code

Mississippi Code

Title 23 - Elections

Chapter 15 - Mississippi Election Code

Article 19 - Absentee Ballots

Absentee Balloting Procedures Law

§ 23-15-621. Short title

§ 23-15-623. Application to absentee ballots authorized in Subarticles B, C, and D

§ 23-15-625. Duties of registrar relating to the provision and disbursement of absentee voting applications; request for application by person other than elector seeking to vote by absentee ballot; solicitation of absentee ballot applications for per...

§ 23-15-627. Distribution of absentee ballot application by registrar; request for absentee ballot application by certain persons on behalf of an elector; form of application

§ 23-15-631. Instructions to absent electors; instructions as constituting substantive law

§ 23-15-633. Signatures of elector and attesting witness across flap of envelope

§ 23-15-635. Form of elector's certificate, attesting witness certification, and voter assistance certificate where county registrar is not attesting witness and voter is not absent voter as defined in the Armed Forces Absentee Voting Law

§ 23-15-637. Timely casting of ballots

§ 23-15-639. Examination of absentee ballots at close of polls; counting of ballots

§ 23-15-643. Examination of affidavits; challenges

§ 23-15-645. Preservation of materials relative to absentee voters; return of materials to registrar

§ 23-15-647. Disposition of absentee ballots received after applicable deadlines

§ 23-15-649. Preparation and printing of absentee voter ballots

§ 23-15-651. Announcement of results of vote by absentee balloting

§ 23-15-653. Hours of registrars' offices on two Saturdays prior to each election

§ 23-15-657. Requests for absentee ballots by telephone