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2018 Georgia Code 21-2-457 | Car Wreck Lawyer

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TITLE 21 ELECTIONS

Section 2. Elections and Primaries Generally, 21-2-1 through 21-2-604.

ARTICLE 11 PREPARATION FOR AND CONDUCT OF PRIMARIES AND ELECTIONS

21-2-457. Removal, storage, and examination of voting machines after completion of vote count.

As soon as possible after the completion of the count in precincts in which voting machines are used, the superintendent shall have the voting machines removed to the place of storage provided for in this chapter. The voting machines shall remain locked against voting for the period of ten days next following each primary and election, and as much longer as may be necessary or advisable because of any existing or threatened contest over the result of the primary or election, with due regard for the date of the next following primary or election, except that they may be opened and all the data and figures therein examined under this chapter, by order of any superior court of competent jurisdiction, or by direction of any legislative committee to investigate and report upon contested primaries or elections affected by the use of such machines. Such data and such figures shall be examined by such committee in the presence of the officer having the custody of such machines.

(Ga. L. 1959, p. 413, § 1; Code 1933, § 34-1332, enacted by Ga. L. 1964, Ex. Sess., p. 26, § 1; Code 1933, § 34-1334, as redesignated by Ga. L. 1969, p. 308, § 36; Ga. L. 1983, p. 140, § 1; Ga. L. 1998, p. 295, § 1.)

JUDICIAL DECISIONS

Cited in Rary v. Guess, 129 Ga. App. 102, 198 S.E.2d 879 (1973).

OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL

Write-in vote by vote recorder consisting of candidate's last name and office the candidate seeks is valid. 1980 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 80-120.

PART 4 P RECINCTS USING VOTE RECORDERS

21-2-470 through 21-2-473.

Reserved. Repealed by Ga. L. 2003, p. 517, § 51, effective July 1, 2003.

Editor's notes.

- This part consisted of Code Sections 21-2-470 through 21-2-473, relating to precincts using vote recorders, and was based on Code 1933, § 34-1316; Ga. L. 1964, Ex. Sess., p. 26, § 1; Ga. L. 1968, p. 871, § 12a; Code 1933, § 34-1335, as redesignated by Ga. L. 1969, p. 308, § 16; Ga. L. 1977, p. 1053, § 10; Ga. L. 1983, p. 140, § 1; Ga. L. 1991, p. 599, § 1; Ga. L. 1995, p. 1302, §§ 13, 14; Ga. L. 1998, p. 295, § 1; Code 1933, § 34-1338, enacted by Ga. L. 1969, p. 308, § 38; Ga. L. 1973, p. 175, § 1; Ga. L. 1989, p. 842, § 1; Ga. L. 1998, p. 295, § 1; Ga. L. 1999, p. 52, § 16; Code 1933, § 34-1329, enacted by Ga. L. 1964, Ex. Sess., p. 26, § 1; Code 1933, § 34-1337, as redesignated by Ga. L. 1969, p. 308, § 33; Ga. L. 1978, p. 1004, § 30; Ga. L. 1982, p. 1512, § 5; Ga. L. 1998, p. 295, § 1; Code 1933, § 34-1328, enacted by Ga. L. 1964, Ex. Sess., p. 26, § 1; Ga. L. 1968, p. 871, § 14; Code 1933, § 34-1336, as redesignated by Ga. L. 1969, p. 308, § 31; Ga. L. 1982, p. 1512, § 5; Ga. L. 1983, p. 140, § 1; Ga. L. 1989, p. 842, § 2; Ga. L. 1998, p. 295, § 1.

PART 5 P RECINCTS USING OPTICAL SCANNING VOTING EQUIPMENT

Cross references.

- Optical scanning voting systems, § 21-2-365 et seq.

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