{"data":{"id":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-23-15-531.12","jurisdiction":"us-ms","citation":"Miss. Code Ann. § 23-15-531.12","heading":"Emergency paper ballots to be cast if DRE unit becomes inoperable.","body":"If for any reason any DRE unit shall become inoperable, the poll managers, or the officials in charge of the election, shall direct voters to an operating DRE unit or to cast emergency paper ballots. Such paper ballots shall be administered in accordance with the laws concerning paper ballots.","path":["Title 23. Elections","Chapter 15. Mississippi Election Code","Article 15. Voting Systems.","Subarticle E. Direct recording electronic voting equipment (DRE)."],"source_url":"https://archive.org/download/gov.ms.code.ann.2018/release78.2020.07.08/gov.ms.code.title.23.odt","current_through":"2020-07-08","vintage":"Mississippi Code Release 78 (2020-07), retrieved 2026-09-17; absent from the newer snapshot, which serves other sections of this chapter, so it may since have been repealed or amended","retrieved_at":"2026-10-27T05:52:03Z","sha256":"9807ed9385c18d1b12c18656f4727be39dda2ea8f3a203147f76f0304f640f15","source_id":"us-ms","stale":false,"prev":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-23-15-531.10","next":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-23-15-613","notices":[{"id":"open-us-law","title":"Open US Law compilation","text":"Compilation CC BY 4.0, Open US Law (Vaquill AI). GroundRules uses only the releases published under CC BY 4.0: from v2026.09 the compilation is licensed CC BY-NC 4.0, and GroundRules does not use those releases. Each affected row names its release in its vintage label. GroundRules parsed and filtered the compilation to retain enacted text.","url":"https://huggingface.co/datasets/vaquill/open-us-law","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"},{"id":"pro-ms","title":"Mississippi Release 78 supplement","text":"Mississippi electronic product files were republished by Public.Resource.Org under a public-domain dedication. GroundRules uses enacted text from Release 78 only as a labeled supplement to the newer Open US Law rows.","url":"https://archive.org/details/gov.ms.code.ann.2018"}]},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}