Ballots in all elections shall be printed and distributed at public expense and shall be known as 'official ballots.' The expense of printing the ballots shall be paid out of the county treasury, except that in municipal elections such expenses shall be paid by the respective cities, towns and villages.In the case of a statewide special election on the new design for the official Mississippi State Flag provided for in Section 2 of Chapter 427, Laws of 2020, the provisions of this section regarding payment of the expenses of printing the official ballots shall be governed by the provisions of Section 2(3) of Chapter 427, Laws of 2020.Derived from 1972 Code § 23-5-123 [Codes, 1892, § 3650; 1906, § 4157; Hemingway's 1917, § 6791; 1930, § 6226; 1942, § 3255; repealed by Laws, 1986, ch. 495, § 335]; Laws, 1986, ch. 495, § 107; Laws, 2001, ch. 301, § 4, eff. 2/7/2001 (the date the United States Attorney General interposed no objection under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965).Amended by Laws, 2020, ch. 427, HB 1796,§ 4, eff. 6/30/2020.Amended by Laws, 2017, ch. 441, HB 467, 77, eff. 7/1/2017.
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