§ Miss. Code § 23-15-541(untitled)

Hours polls to be open; designation and duties of initialing manager and
alternate initialing manager; curbside voting authorized for certain individuals; procedure.
(1) At all elections, the polls shall be opened at seven o'clock in the morning and be kept
open until seven o'clock in the evening and no longer. Upon the opening of the polls, and not
before, the managers of the election shall designate two (2) of their number, other than the
manager theretofore designated to receive the blank ballots, who shall thereupon be known
respectively as the initialing manager and the alternate initialing manager. The alternate initialing
manager, in the absence of the initialing manager, shall perform all of the duties and undertake
all of the responsibilities of the initialing manager. When any person entitled to vote shall appear
to vote, he shall first sign his name in a receipt book or booklet provided for that purpose and to
be used at that election only and said receipt book or booklet shall be used in lieu of the list of
voters who have voted formerly made by the managers or clerks; whereupon and not before, the
initialing manager or, in his absence, the alternate initialing manager shall indorse his initials on
the back of an official blank ballot, prepared in accordance with law, and at such place on the
back of the ballot that the initials may be seen after the ballot has been marked and folded, and
when so endorsed he shall deliver it to the voter, which ballot the voter shall mark in the manner
provided by law, which when done the voter shall deliver the same to the initialing manager or,
in his absence, to the alternate initialing manager, in the presence of the others, and the manager
shall see that the ballot so delivered bears on the back thereof the genuine initials of the initialing
manager, or alternate initialing manager, and if so, but not otherwise, the ballot shall be put into
the ballot box; and when so done one (1) of the managers or a duly appointed clerk shall make
the proper entry on the pollbook. If the voter is unable to write his name on the receipt book, a
manager or clerk shall note on the back of the ballot that it was receipted for by his assistance.
(2) (a) A poll manager shall be authorized to allow a physically disabled person to vote
curbside during the hours in which the polls are open as described in this section.
Where the managers of an election, exercising their sound discretion, determine that a
physically disabled person has arrived at the polls in a motor vehicle to vote, two (2) or more
managers shall carry the pollbook, the receipt book, and a ballot or voting device to the motor
vehicle, and after determining whether the disabled person is a qualified elector as provided by
law, shall allow the disabled elector to cast his or her ballot in secret. After the disabled elector
casts his or her ballot, the managers shall mark the pollbook "voted" by the elector's name in the
pollbook.
(b) If the ballot that is provided to the disabled elector is a paper ballot, the initialing manager
shall initial the ballot as provided by law, and the disabled elector, after marking his or her ballot
shall fold the ballot or place it in the ballot sleeve. The initialing manager or alternate initialing
manager shall determine whether the initials on the ballot are genuine, and upon a determination
that the initials are genuine, mark "voted" by the elector's name. The initialing manager or
alternate initialing manager shall without delay place the ballot in the ballot box.
(c) If, while a voter is voting by curbside, there are less than three (3) managers immediately
present within the polling place conducting an election or a political party primary, all voting at
the polls shall stop until the managers conducting the curbside voting procedure return so that
there are at least three (3) poll managers immediately present within the polling place to conduct
the election or party primary at all times, and until a minimum of three (3) managers are present,
the remaining poll manager or managers shall ensure the security of the ballot box, the voting
devices, and any ballots and election materials.