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title: O.C.G.A. § 21-2-281. Voting by paper ballot when use of voting equipment impossible or impracticable.
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# O.C.G.A. § 21-2-281. Voting by paper ballot when use of voting equipment impossible or impracticable.

In any primary or election in which the use of voting equipment is impossible or impracticable, for the reasons set out in Code Section 21-2-334, the primary or election may be conducted by paper ballot in the manner provided in Code Section 21-2-334.

## History

Code 1981, § 21-2-281; Ga. L. 1998, p. 295, § 1; Ga. L. 2002, p. 598, § 2-3.

## Editor's Notes

This Code section was created as part of the Code revision and was thus enacted by Ga. L. 1981, Ex. Sess., p. 8.