O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 21-2-10 (2019)

Election of presidential electors

✓ O.C.G.A. — 2019 edition (Public.Resource.Org Release 73)
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At the November election to be held in the year 1964 and every fourth year thereafter, there shall be elected by the electors of this state persons to be known as electors of President and Vice President of the United States and referred to in this chapter as presidential electors, equal in number to the whole number of senators and representatives to which this state may be entitled in the Congress of the United States.

History

Laws 1824, Cobb’s 1851 Digest, p. 235; Code 1863, § 1251; Code 1868, § 1332;

Code 1873, § 1311; Code 1882, § 1311; Civil Code 1895, § 89; Civil Code 1910, § 103; Code 1933, § 34-2501; Ga. L. 1958,

ELECTIONS & PRIMARIES

p. 208, §§ 1, 3; Code 1933, § 34-1601, enacted by Ga. L. 1964, Ex. Sess., p. 26,

§ 1; Ga. L. 1982, p. 3, § 21; Ga. L. 1993, p. 118, § 1; Ga. L. 1998, p. 295, § 1.

Annotations

JUDICIAL DECISIONS Election of presidential electors is a general election. Moore v. Smith, 140

Ga. 854, 79 S.E. 1116, 1913 Ga. LEXIS 275 (1913).

RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. 25 Am. Jur. 2d, Elections, § 6.

ALR. Presidential and vice-presidential electors, 153 A.L.R. 1066.

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 1 case (1 in the last 5 years), 2024–2024 · leading case: West v. Wittenstein, 319 Ga. 825 (Ga. 2024).
West v. Wittenstein, 319 Ga. 825 (Ga. 2024). “See OCGA §§ 21-2-10, 21-2-11, 21-2-285 (e); U.S. Const.”
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