O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 36-4-2 (2019)

Conduct of election generally; 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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The election shall be held and conducted and returns shall be made thereof as is provided by Chapter 2 of Title 21, the ‘‘Georgia Election Code.’’

History

Ga. L. 1878-79, p. 44, § 2; Code 1882, § 508y; Civil Code 1895,

§ 392; Civil Code 1910, § 487; Code 1933, § 23-502.

Annotations

JUDICIAL DECISIONS Where polls opened. - To the validity of an election it is not indispensable that the polls should be opened at each of the

polling places in the county. Wells v. Ragsdale, 102 Ga. 53, 29 S.E. 165 (1897).

RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. - 56 Am. Jur. 2d, Municipal Corporations, Counties, and Other Political Subdivisions, § 31.

C.J.S. - 20 C.J.S., Counties, § 97 et seq.