O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 21-2-77 (2019)

Electronic election returns

✓ 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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(a) Beginning with the election cycle in the year 2000, the superintendent of elections of each county shall provide electronically to the Secretary of State, within 45 days after the close of voting, election returns divided by precinct for each precinct in their respective counties for all primaries, elections, special primaries, special elections, and runoffs for such elections for federal or state offices held in that year or any following year. (b) Beginning with the election cycle in the year 2002, the superintendent of elections of each county shall provide electronically to the Secretary of State, within seven days after the close of voting, election returns divided by precinct for each precinct in their respective counties for all primaries, elections, special primaries, special elections, and runoffs for such elections for federal, state, and county offices held in that year or any following year. (c) The Secretary of State is authorized to prescribe by rule or

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regulation the type of electronic format for the provision of such election returns.

History

Code 1981, § 21-2-77, enacted by Ga. L. 2000, p. 13, § 1; Ga. L. 2003, p. 517, § 8.

Annotations

Law reviews. For note on 2000 enactment of this Code

section, see 17 Ga. St. U. L. Rev. 178 (2000).

PART 4 POLL OFFICERS Cross references. Interference with primaries and elections, § 21-2-566. Penalties for offenses committed

against poll officers, 21-2-569, 21-2-584, Penalty for offenses committed by poll officers, §§ 21-2-584 and 21-2-587 et seq.