Official Code of Georgia Annotated

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

21-2-583. Removal or destruction of election supplies or conveniences.

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

Any person who:
(1)
Prior to any primary or election, willfully defaces, removes, or destroys any notice or list of candidates posted in accordance with this chapter;#
(2)
During any primary or election, willfully defaces, tears down, removes, or destroys any card of instructions, notice of penalties, or diagram printed or posted for the instruction of electors; or#
(3)
During any primary or election, willfully removes or destroys any of the supplies or conveniences furnished to any polling place in order to enable electors to vote or the poll officers to perform their duties#
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

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, § 34-1918, enacted by Ga. L. 1964, Ex. Sess., p. 26, § 1; Ga. L. 1998, p. 295, § 1.

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