§ Miss. Code § 23-15-425Non-delivery, loss, destruction or theft of official ballots

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If the official ballots for a voting precinct, at which a voting machine is to be used, shall not
be delivered in time for use on election day or after delivery shall be lost, destroyed or stolen, the
official or officials, whose duty it now is, in such case, to provide other ballots for use at such
elections in lieu of those lost, destroyed or stolen, shall cause other ballots to be prepared, printed
or written, as nearly as may be, of the form and description of the official ballots, and officials in
charge of the election shall cause the ballots so substituted to be used at the election in the same
manner, as nearly as may be, as the official ballots would have been.

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