Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 21. ELECTIONS · Chapter 2. ELECTIONS AND PRIMARIES GENERALLY · Article 2. SUPERVISORY BOARDS AND OFFICERS · Part 3. SUPERINTENDENTS

21-2-77. Electronic election returns.

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

(a)
Beginning with the election cycle in the year 2000, the superintendent of elections of each county shall provide electronically to the Secretary of State, within 45 days after the close of voting, election returns divided by precinct for each precinct in their respective counties for all primaries, elections, special primaries, special elections, and runoffs for such elections for federal or state offices held in that year or any following year.#
(b)
Beginning with the election cycle in the year 2002, the superintendent of elections of each county shall provide electronically to the Secretary of State, within seven days after the close of voting, election returns divided by precinct for each precinct in their respective counties for all primaries, elections, special primaries, special elections, and runoffs for such elections for federal, state, and county offices held in that year or any following year.#
(c)
The Secretary of State is authorized to prescribe by rule or regulation the type of electronic format for the provision of such election returns.#

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, § 21-2-77, enacted by Ga. L. 2000, p. 13, § 1; Ga. L. 2003, p. 517, § 8.

For note on 2000 enactment of this Code section, see 17 Ga. St. U. L. Rev. 178 (2000).

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