Mississippi Const. art. 12, § 251

Mississippi Constitution

Article 12, § 251 — Time of registration

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Miss. Const. art. 12, § 251.

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Electors shall not be registered within four months next before any election at which they may offer to vote; but appeals may be heard and determined and revision take place at any time prior to the election; and no person who, in respect to age and residence, would become entitled to vote within the said four months, shall be excluded from registration on account of his want of qualification at the time of registration.

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Electors shall not be registered within four months next before any election at which they may offer to vote; but appeals may be heard and determined and revision take place at any time prior to the election; and no person who, in respect to age and residence, would become entitled to vote within the said four months, shall be excluded from registration on account of his want of qualification at the time of registration.

History

NOTE: The provisions of Art. 12, § 251 of the Mississippi Constitution of 1890 that prescribe a period of 4-months registration for qualified electors before voting in elections are unconstitutional, void and of no effect, as contrary to the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution. Ferguson v. Williams, 343 F.Supp. 654, 657 (N.D. Miss. 1972).