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

21-2-571. Voting by unqualified elector or giving false information.

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

  1. Any person who votes or attempts to vote at any primary or election, knowing that such person does not possess all the qualifications of an elector at such primary or election, as required by law, or who votes or attempts to vote at any primary in violation of Code Section 21-2-223 or who knowingly gives false information to poll officers in an attempt to vote in any primary or election 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, § 34-1929, enacted by Ga. L. 1964, Ex. Sess., p. 26, § 1; Ga. L. 1994, p. 1443, § 12; Ga. L. 1998, p. 295, § 1; Ga. L. 2007, p. 536, § 8/SB 40.

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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 620; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 0bbec62b36ec.