O.C.G.A.
O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 21-2-578 (2019)

Unfolding, opening, or prying into ballots

✓ 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, before any ballot is deposited in the ballot box as provided by this chapter, willfully unfolds, opens, or pries into any such ballot with the intent to discover the manner in which the same has been marked shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

History

Code 1933, § 34-1923, enacted by Ga. L. 1964, Ex. Sess., p. 26, § 1; Ga. L. 1998, p.

295, § 1; Ga. L. 2010, p. 914, § 31/HB 540.

Annotations

OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL Fingerprinting not required. - An offense under O.C.G.A. § 21-2-578 would not be designated as one which requires

fingerprinting. 1998 Op. Att’y Gen. No. 98-20.