O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 21-2-563 (2019)

Improper signing or alteration of nomination petitions or affidavits

✓ 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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Any person who knowingly and willfully: (1) Signs any nomination petition without having the qualifications prescribed by this chapter; (2) Sets any false statement opposite the signature on a nomination petition; (3) Signs more nomination petitions than permitted by this chapter; (4) Makes a false statement in any affidavit required by this chapter to be appended to or to accompany a nomination petition; (5) Signs any name not his or her own to any nomination petition; or

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(6) Materially alters any nomination petition without the consent of the signers shall be guilty of a felony.

History

Code 1933, §§ 34-1908, 34-1909, en-

acted by Ga. L. 1964, Ex. Sess., p. 26, § 1; Ga. L. 1998, p. 295, § 1.

Annotations

RESEARCH REFERENCES ALR. Nonregistration as affecting one’s qualification as signer of petition for special

election, submission of proposition, or nominating petition, 100 A.L.R. 1308.