Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that expands laws for polling places, prohibiting them to be closed 60 days before an election in the state of Mississippi.

Highlights:

• Requires that no polling place shall be closed within sixty days of any primary, general, runoff or special election unless exigent circumstances exist (Sec. 1). 

• Requires that when a polling place closes within sixty days of an election, public notice of the closing shall be posted at city hall, the courthouse, the registrar's office, the polling place location that closed, and for three  consecutive weeks in a newspaper that is circulated in the area (Sec. 1).

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