TITLE 21 ELECTIONS

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

ARTICLE 15 MISCELLANEOUS OFFENSES

21-2-563. Improper signing or alteration of nomination petitions or affidavits.

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
6. Materially alters any nomination petition without the consent of the signers

   shall be guilty of a felony.

(Code 1933, §§ 34-1908, 34-1909, enacted by Ga. L. 1964, Ex. Sess., p. 26, § 1; Ga. L. 1998, p. 295, § 1.)