TrustVoting Atlas

At the general election in 1984 and every four (4) years thereafter there shall be elected five
(5) commissioners of election for each county whose terms of office shall commence on the first
Monday of January following their election and who shall serve for a term of four (4) years.
Each of the commissioners, before acting, shall take and subscribe the oath of office prescribed
by the Constitution and file the oath in the office of the clerk of the chancery court, there to
remain. While engaged in their duties, the commissioners shall be conservators of the peace in
the county, with all the duties and powers of such.
The qualified electors of each supervisors district shall elect, at the general election in 1984
and every four (4) years thereafter, in their district one (1) commissioner of election. No more
than one (1) commissioner shall be a resident of and reside in each supervisors district of the
county; it being the purpose of this section that the county board of election commissioners shall
consist of one (1) person from each supervisors district of the county and that each commissioner
be elected from the supervisors district in which he resides.
Candidates for county election commissioner shall qualify by filing with the clerk of the
board of supervisors of their respective counties a petition personally signed by not less than fifty
(50) qualified electors of the supervisors district in which they reside, requesting that they be a
candidate, by 5:00 p.m. not later than the first Monday in June of the year in which the election
occurs and unless the petition is filed within the required time, their names shall not be placed
upon the ballot. All candidates shall declare in writing their party affiliation, if any, to the board
of supervisors, and such party affiliation shall be shown on the official ballot.
The petition shall have attached thereto a certificate of the registrar showing the number of
qualified electors on each petition, which shall be furnished by the registrar on request. The
board shall determine the sufficiency of the petition, and if the petition contains the required
number of signatures and is filed within the time required, the president of the board shall verify
that the candidate is a resident of the supervisors district in which he seeks election and that the
candidate is otherwise qualified as provided by law, and shall certify that the candidate is
qualified to the chairman or secretary of the county election commission and the names of the
candidates shall be placed upon the ballot for the ensuing election. No county election
commissioner shall serve or be considered as elected unless and until he has received a majority
of the votes cast for the position or post for which he is a candidate. If a majority vote is not
received in the first election, then the two (2) candidates receiving the most votes for each
position or post shall be placed upon the ballot for a second election to be held three (3) weeks
later in accordance with appropriate procedures followed in other elections involving runoff
candidates.
Upon taking office, the county board of election commissioners shall organize by electing a
chairman and a secretary.
It shall be the duty of the chairman to have the official ballot printed and distributed at each
general or special election.