The registrar shall keep safely and unopened all official absentee ballots which are received subsequent to the applicable cutoff period establishing its validity. Upon receipt of such ballot, the registrar shall write the day and hour of the receipt of the ballot on its envelope. All such absentee ballots returned to the registrar after the cutoff time shall be safely kept unopened by the registrar for the period of time required for the preservation of ballots used in the election, and shall then, without being opened, be destroyed in like manner as the used ballots of the election.
Structure Mississippi Code
Chapter 15 - Mississippi Election Code
Absentee Balloting Procedures Law
§ 23-15-623. Application to absentee ballots authorized in Subarticles B, C, and D
§ 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
§ 23-15-637. 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