O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 21-2-588 (2019)

Premature counting of votes by poll officer

✓ 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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Except as provided in Code Section 21-2-386, any poll officer who counts any votes before the close of the polls or before the last person has voted, whichever occurs later in time, on the day of any primary or election shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

History

Code 1933, § 34-1939, enacted by Ga. L. 1964, Ex. Sess., p. 26, § 1; Ga. L. 1998, p.

295, § 1; Ga. L. 2010, p. 914, § 34/HB 540.

Annotations

OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL Fingerprinting not required. - An offense under O.C.G.A. § 21-2-588 would not be designated as one which requires

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

RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. 26 Am. Jur. 2d, Elections, § 449. C.J.S. 29 C.J.S., Elections, § 573.

ALR. Admissibility of parol evidence of election officials to impeach election returns, 46 A.L.R.2d 1385.