Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 1 - Secretary of State › Part 16 - Elections - Voter Photo Identification › Chapter 1 - Definitions › Rule 1-16-1.1 - Definitions

Current through June 25, 2024
A. "Acceptable Photographic Identification" means a current
				  and valid:
1) Mississippi driver's license,
2) Identification card, including, but not limited to, an
				  employee identification card containing a photograph of the elector, issued by
				  a branch, department, agency or entity of the State of Mississippi,
3) United States passport,
4) Employee identification card containing a photograph of
				  the elector issued by any branch, department, agency or entity of the United
				  States government,
5) Mississippi license containing a photograph of the elector
				  to carry a pistol or revolver,
6) Tribal identification card containing a photograph of the
				  elector,
7) United States military identification card containing a
				  photograph of the elector,
8) Student identification card, containing a photograph of
				  the elector, issued by an accredited college, university or community or junior
				  college in the State of Mississippi,
9) Mississippi Voter Identification Card, and
10) Photo identification issued by any branch, department,
				  agency or entity of the United States government or any state government
				  including, but not limited to, a driver's license issued by a state other than
				  Mississippi.
B. "Accredited college, university, community or junior
				  college in the State of Mississippi" means a college, university, community
				  college or junior college approved by the Mississippi Commission on College
				  Accreditation.
C. "Business Days" means those days on which each Registrar's
				  office is open for business, including those Saturdays on which each
				  Registrar's office is open for purposes as provided by statute.
D. "Current" means the document has no expiration date or has
				  an issuance date not more than ten (10) years prior to the date the document is
				  presented.
E. "EVVE" means the Electronic Verification of Vital Events
				  system.
F. "Mississippi Voter Identification Card" means a card
				  issued by the State of Mississippi through the individual offices of each
				  county Registrar pursuant to Miss. Code Ann. Section
				  23-15-7,
				  solely for the purpose of identifying a qualified elector by photographic
				  identification who presents to a Registrar, Municipal Clerk or polling place to
				  vote.
G. "Photo Identity Document" means a valid, but not current
				  document, containing the elector's name and a photograph that fairly depicts
				  the elector, issued by any branch, department, agency, division or entity of
				  the United States government or any state government.
H. "Qualified Elector", as defined by Miss. Code Ann. Section
				  23-15-11,
				  means every inhabitant of the state of Mississippi, except persons adjudicated
				  to be non compos mentis, who is a citizen of the United States, eighteen (18)
				  years old and upwards, who has resided in the state of Mississippi for thirty
				  (30) days and for thirty (30) days in the county in which he or she seeks to
				  vote, and for thirty (30) days in the incorporated municipality in which he or
				  she seeks to vote, and who has been duly registered as an elector pursuant to
				  Miss. Code Ann. Section
				  23-15-33,
				  and who has never been convicted of any crime provided within Section 241 of
				  the Mississippi Constitution of 1890.
I. "Registrar" means each of the eighty-two (82) county
				  registrars of elections, appointed by the State Board of Election
				  Commissioners, pursuant to Miss. Code Ann. Section
				  23-15-223,
				  and each deputy registrar as authorized by law.
J. "Receipt for the Mississippi Voter Identification Card"
				  means a document, issued by the State of Mississippi through the individual
				  offices of each county Registrar pursuant to Miss. Code Ann. Section
				  23-15-631,
				  solely for the purpose of providing temporary Acceptable Photographic
				  Identification to a qualified elector by who presents to a Registrar, Municipal
				  Clerk or polling place to vote within forty-five (45) days after
				  issuance.
K. "SEMS" means the Statewide Elections Management System
				  which is Mississippi's electronic voter roll.
L. "State-licensed care facility" means an institution for
				  the aged or infirm as defined by Miss. Code Ann. Section
				  43-11-1.
M. "UOCAVA" means the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens
				  Absentee Voting Act.
N. "Valid" means a document is what it purports to be, and is
				  not a fake or forgery.
Miss. Code Ann. Section
				  23-15-7(8).