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Title 21. ELECTIONS · Chapter 2. ELECTIONS AND PRIMARIES GENERALLY · Article 13. CONTESTED ELECTIONS AND PRIMARIES

21-2-522. Grounds for contest.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

  1. A result of a primary or election may be contested on one or more of the following grounds:

  2. (1)

    Misconduct, fraud, or irregularity by any primary or election official or officials sufficient to change or place in doubt the result;#

  3. (2)

    When the defendant is ineligible for the nomination or office in dispute;#

  4. (3)

    When illegal votes have been received or legal votes rejected at the polls sufficient to change or place in doubt the result;#

  5. (4)

    For any error in counting the votes or declaring the result of the primary or election, if such error would change the result; or#

  6. (5)

    For any other cause which shows that another was the person legally nominated, elected, or eligible to compete in a run-off primary or election.#

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

History

Code 1933, § 34-1703, enacted by Ga. L. 1964, Ex. Sess., p. 26, § 1; Ga. L. 1986, p. 772, § 6; Ga. L. 1993, p. 617, § 10; Ga. L. 1995, p. 1027, § 16; Ga. L. 1998, p. 295, § 1; Ga. L. 2008, p. 261, § 1/SB 456.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

Text read from t21-(v18)-2023-pdf.pdf, Volume V18, 2023 edition, page 569; merge action: annotated; file SHA-256 0bbec62b36ec.