O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 21-2-410 (2019)

Poll officers authorized to give instructions to electors upon request

✓ O.C.G.A. — 2019 edition (Public.Resource.Org Release 73)

Code text and O.C.G.A. statutory annotations on this page reflect the 2019 Official Code of Georgia Annotated (Public.Resource.Org Release 73, 2019-08-21; public domain per Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, 2020). The Syfert case-law annotations in Notes of Decisions, below, are current.

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If any elector, before or after entering the voting booth, shall ask for instructions concerning the manner of voting, a poll officer may give such elector such instructions; but no person giving an elector such instructions shall in any manner request, suggest, or seek to persuade or induce any such elector to vote any particular ticket or for any particular candidate or for or against any particular question. After giving such instructions and before the elector closes the booth or votes, the poll officer shall retire and the elector shall immediately vote.

History

Code 1933, § 34-1311, enacted by Ga. L.

1969, p. 308, § 10; Ga. L. 1998, p. 295, § 1.

Annotations

RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. 26 Am. Jur. 2d, Elections, § 313 et seq.

C.J.S. 29 C.J.S., Elections, §§ 334, 335, 336.