Georgia CommonsTitle 21. ELECTIONS · Chapter 2. ELECTIONS AND PRIMARIES GENERALLY · Article 9. VOTING MACHINES AND VOTE RECORDERS GENERALLY · Part 4. OPTICAL SCANNING VOTING SYSTEMS
21-2-372. Ballot description; watermark required.
Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.
Ballots shall be of suitable design, size, and stock to permit processing by a ballot scanner and shall be printed in black ink on clear, white, or colored material. Other than ballots delivered electronically to qualified electors who are entitled to vote by absentee ballot under the federal Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act, 52 U.S.C. Section 20301, et seq., the ballots shall be printed on security paper that incorporates features which can be used to authenticate the ballot as an official ballot but which do not make the ballot identifiable to a particular elector, provided that at least one such feature is a visible watermark that identifies the ballot as an official Georgia ballot.
History
Code 1981, § 21-2-372, enacted by Ga. L. 1998, p. 1231, § 37; Ga. L. 1999, p. 29, § 1; Ga. L. 2019, p. 7, § 22/HB 316; Ga. L. 2021, p. 14, § 23/SB 202; Ga. L. 2024, p. 758, § 1/HB 974, effective July 1, 2024.
Amendments
The 2024 amendment, effective July 1, 2024, added “, provided that at least one such feature is a visible watermark that identifies the ballot as an official Georgia ballot” at the end of this Code section.
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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.
Text read from t21-(v18)-pdf.pdf, Volume V18, 2023 edition, 2025 supplement, pages 60 to 61; merge action: replaced; file SHA-256 8651e769068e.
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