Bill > HB1241

This bill mandates the Secretary of State to establish a centralized, statewide system for reporting election results on election night, making real-time results accessible to the public via the Secretary of State's website, and requiring local election officials to submit periodic electronic reports of results, starting with an initial report one hour after polls close and subsequent reports every thirty minutes until all votes are counted, with officials needing to notify the Secretary of State if they cannot meet these deadlines, and the chair of the board of election commissioners will be responsible for these reports and will receive an additional $150 per election night for this duty, though this system will not apply to municipal elections; additionally, the bill brings forward existing Mississippi Code sections related to the canvassing and reporting of election returns by county and state executive committees and the duties of election commissioners, as well as provisions for reporting "residual votes" (overvotes, undervotes, or uncounted votes) to the Secretary of State, which are intended to be amended by this act.

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https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2026/pdf/history/HB/HB1241.xml