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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

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

21-2-580. Tampering with, damaging, improper preparation of, or prevention of proper operation of voting machines or electronic ballot markers or tabulating machines.

Active

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

  1. Any person who:

  2. (1)

    Unlawfully opens, tampers with, or damages any voting machine or electronic ballot marker or tabulating machine to be used or being used at any primary or election;#

  3. (2)

    Willfully prepares a voting machine or an electronic ballot marker or tabulating machine for use in a primary or election in improper order for voting; or#

  4. (3)

    Prevents or attempts to prevent the correct operation of such electronic ballot marker or tabulating machine or voting machine#

  5. 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, § 34-1915, enacted by Ga. L. 1964, Ex. Sess., p. 26, § 1; Ga. L. 1998, p. 295, § 1; Ga. L. 2019, p. 7, § 46/HB 316.

Law reviews

For article on the 2019 amendment of this Code section, see 36 Ga. St. U.L. Rev. 81 (2019).

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