§ Miss. Code § 23-15-219(untitled)

Employment by board of election commissioners of investigators, legal
counsel and others.
(1) The board of election commissioners is hereby authorized and empowered to employ and
set or determine the duties of and determine the compensation of such investigators, legal
counsel, secretaries, technical advisors and any other employees or persons who or which said
board or a majority thereof may deem necessary to enable them to discharge the duties and
obligations presently or hereafter vested in them. However, before employing such persons or
setting or determining said compensation, the election commissioners must first have the
approval of the board of supervisors of the county.
(2) The board of supervisors of the county is authorized and empowered to pay out of the
general fund of the county the salaries and necessary traveling and subsistence expenses of said
employees of said board of commissioners in such amounts as may be mutually agreed upon by
the said board of supervisors and said board of election commissioners, but which shall be
computed on the same basis allowed to state employees when traveling on state business. All
expense accounts of said employees of said board of election commissioners shall be approved
by said board of election commissioners and said board of supervisors or, in the discretion of
each of said boards, by one (1) of the members of each of said boards duly authorized by the
respective boards to approve or disapprove said subsistence, traveling and mileage expense
accounts.
(3) Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit a person who holds the office of
commissioner of election from being employed and receiving compensation pursuant to this
section. Any compensation which such a person may receive from his employment pursuant to
this section shall be in addition to any compensation such person may receive in performing his
duties as a commissioner of election.