Senate Bill 2793 Summary

• Requires registrars to record which party primary election each voter participates in and removes date of birth and age information from public records exemptions under the Mississippi Public Records Act.

• Extends the period candidates have to examine ballot boxes from 12 to 20 days after certification of election results and permits copying of ballot box contents, pollbooks, and election records at actual cost of production.

• Prohibits voters from participating in one party's primary or run-off primary election if they voted in another party's primary within the previous 60 days, with violations constituting a misdemeanor.

• Changes second primary election timing from three weeks to four weeks after the first primary election across all election types (municipal, county, state, congressional, and judicial).

• Extends deadlines for filing election contests and petitions for judicial review from 20 days to 30 days after certification of election results and requires election contests to be tried by judge without a jury.