Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 21. ELECTIONS · Chapter 2. ELECTIONS AND PRIMARIES GENERALLY · Article 15. MISCELLANEOUS OFFENSES

21-2-563. Improper signing or alteration of nomination petitions or affidavits.

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

Any person who knowingly and willfully:
(1)
Signs any nomination petition without having the qualifications prescribed by this chapter;#
(2)
Sets any false statement opposite the signature on a nomination petition;#
(3)
Signs more nomination petitions than permitted by this chapter;#
(4)
Makes a false statement in any affidavit required by this chapter to be appended to or to accompany a nomination petition;#
(5)
Signs any name not his or her own to any nomination petition; or#
(6)
Materially alters any nomination petition without the consent of the signers#
shall be guilty of a felony.

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, §§ 34-1908, 34-1909, enacted by Ga. L. 1964, Ex. Sess., p. 26, § 1; Ga. L. 1998, p. 295, § 1.

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