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[GENERAL: VOTER REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS] Revised 03-01-11 County offices will be required to submit a report of all employees who attended the training via the MDHS-EA-106 to State Operations within one month of the training. Prohibitions When providing voter registration services, MDHS employees must not engage in the following: • seek to influence a client’s political preference or party designation (voter registrants are not required to declare party affiliation in Mississippi) • display any political preference or party allegiance • make any statement to a client or take any action for the purpose of discouraging the client from registering to vote; or • make any statement to a client or take any action that would lead a client to believe that a decision to register or not to register has any bearing on the availability of services or benefits the client will receive. Registration of 17-Year-Olds Mississippi law allows persons who will be 18 years of age on or before the date of a November general election to vote in a primary election associated with that general election. Therefore, the agency may determine that in some instances a 17-year-old household member is eligible to register to vote. If a 17-year-old will turn 18 on or before the general election date in November, the 17year-old can register and vote in the primary election held earlier in the same year, and must be provided with a voter registration application and declination form at each application, reapplication, and change of address transaction.

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