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

21-2-566. Interference with primaries and elections generally.

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

  1. Any person who:

  2. (1)

    Willfully prevents or attempts to prevent any poll officer from holding any primary or election under this chapter;#

  3. (2)

    Uses or threatens violence in a manner that would prevent a reasonable poll officer, election official, or poll watcher or actually prevents a poll officer, election official, or poll watcher, as provided for by Code Section 21-2-408, from the execution of his or her duties or materially interrupts or improperly and materially interferes with the execution of a poll officer, election official, or poll watcher’s, as provided for by Code Section 21-2-408, duties;#

  4. (3)

    Willfully blocks or attempts to block the avenue to the door of any polling place;#

  5. (4)

    Uses or threatens violence in a manner that would prevent a reasonable elector from voting or actually prevents any elector from voting;#

  6. (5)

    Willfully prepares or presents to any poll officer a fraudulent voter’s certificate not signed by the elector whose certificate it purports to be;#

  7. (6)

    Knowingly deposits fraudulent ballots in the ballot box;#

  8. (7)

    Knowingly registers fraudulent votes upon any voting machine; or#

  9. (8)

    Willfully tampers with any electors list, voter’s certificate, numbered list of voters, ballot box, voting machine, direct recording electronic (DRE) equipment, electronic ballot marker, or tabulating machine#

  10. shall be guilty of a felony and, upon conviction thereof, shall be sentenced to imprisonment for not less than one nor more than ten years or to pay a fine not to exceed $100,000.00, or both.

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, § 34-1924, enacted by Ga. L. 1964, Ex. Sess., p. 26, § 1; Ga. L. 1985, p. 206, § 1; Ga. L. 1998, p. 295, § 1; Ga. L. 2003, p. 517, § 61; Ga. L. 2007, p. 536, § 5/SB 40; Ga. L. 2008, p. 781, § 16/HB 1112; Ga. L. 2019, p. 7, § 44/HB 316; Ga. L. 2024, p. 812, § 7/HB 1207, effective July 1, 2024.

Amendments

The 2024 amendment, effective July 1, 2024, rewrote paragraph (2).

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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 92 to 93; merge action: replaced; file SHA-256 8651e769068e.

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