Official Code of Georgia Annotated

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

21-2-602. Compensation for soliciting persons to register to vote prohibited.

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

It shall be illegal to receive, accept, offer, or provide compensation for soliciting persons to register to vote based upon the number of persons registered and any person who knowingly receives, accepts, offers, or provides such compensation on such basis 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.

Code 1981, § 21-2-600, enacted by Ga. L. 1994, p. 1443, § 14; Code 1981, § 21-2-602, as redesignated by Ga. L. 1998, p. 295, § 1.

Ga. L. 1998, p. 295, § 1, effective January 1, 1998, redesignated former Code Section 21-2-601 as present Code Section 21-2-602.

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