SB377: SB377 Elections and Primaries; curbside voting for certain voters who because of disability or age cannot enter a polling place or are unable to wait in line to vote; authorize

Under current Georgia law, most voters must cast ballots inside a polling place. This bill would create a new option called curbside voting for electors who, because of disability or age, cannot enter the polling place or cannot wait in line. Those voters could cast a paper ballot from their vehicle in a designated, clearly marked parking area near the polls. The bill spells out how poll workers must verify the voter's identity, deliver a ballot and certificate to the vehicle, and carry the completed ballot back inside to be sealed in a secure box and tabulated with other precinct results at the close of polls. Election superintendents would have to supply enough ballots, equipment, and marked parking spaces for this purpose. The Secretary of State would run a pilot program testing curbside voting during the November 4, 2025 election and report results to legislative election committees within 90 days.

• Creates a new option letting electors who cannot enter a polling place or wait in line, due to disability or age, vote from their vehicle in a designated parking area.
• Requires poll workers to verify the voter's identification before bringing a ballot and certificate to the vehicle, with poll watchers allowed to observe.
• Bars anyone besides the voter from being in the vehicle during curbside voting unless the voter qualifies for voting assistance under existing law.
• Directs election superintendents to provide enough ballots, tabulation equipment, and clearly marked curbside voting areas at each polling place.
• Requires the Secretary of State to run a pilot program testing curbside voting during the November 2025 election and report results to legislative election committees within 90 days.
• Updates the state's ballot-counting law (O.C.G.A. § 21-2-420) so precincts must separately track and publicly report the number of curbside ballots cast.

Voters with disabilities or age-related limitations who have trouble entering polling places or standing in line, county election superintendents and poll workers who must implement the new procedures, poll watchers who may observe curbside voting, and the Secretary of State's office, which must run and report on the pilot program.

For voters who currently struggle to enter a polling place or endure long lines, this would create a legal path to vote from a car in a marked parking spot, with poll workers bringing the ballot to them. Election offices would need to add equipment, signage, and separate ballot tracking to accommodate it.

• New Code Section 21-2-409.2 (Section 1) defines who qualifies for curbside voting: electors who because of disability or age cannot enter the polling place or cannot wait in line.
• Subsection (b) requires the poll manager to verify identification and send at least two poll workers to deliver a certificate and ballot to the vehicle.
• Subsection (c) prohibits anyone else from being in the vehicle during voting unless the elector qualifies for assistance under existing voting-assistance law (O.C.G.A. § 21-2-409).
• Subsection (d) requires the ballot to be the same type used for absentee voting, hand marked, folded for secrecy rather than sealed in an envelope, and returned to a poll worker for deposit in a sealed ballot box.
• Subsection (f) requires election superintendents to supply sufficient ballots, tabulation equipment, and marked parking areas for curbside voting at each polling place.
• Subsection (g) creates a pilot program during the November 4, 2025 election, with a report due to legislative election committees within 90 days.
• Section 2 revises Georgia's vote-counting procedure law (O.C.G.A. § 21-2-420) so precincts must separately count and publicly report the number of curbside ballots cast.

1. 2025-04-04Senate Read and Referred (Senate)
2. 2025-04-04Senate Hopper (Senate)

• Max Burns (R, SD-023)Primary sponsor
• Ricky Williams (R, SD-025)
• Harold Jones (D, SD-022)
• Billy Hickman (R, SD-004)
• Sally Harrell (D, SD-040)
• Jason Esteves (D, SD-035)

• curbside voting
• disability voting access
• election procedures
• voting for elderly voters
• Georgia elections