O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 21-2-589 (2019)

Willful omissions by poll officers

✓ 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 poll officer who willfully: (1) Fails to file the voter’s certificate of any elector actually voting at any primary or election; (2) Fails to record voting information as required by this chapter; or (3) Fails to insert in the numbered list of voters the name of any person actually voting shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

History

Code 1933, § 34-1922, enacted by Ga. L.

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

Annotations

OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL Fingerprinting not required. - An offense under O.C.G.A. § 21-2-589 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.