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Título 21. ELECTIONS · Capítulo 2. ELECTIONS AND PRIMARIES GENERALLY · Artículo 4. SELECTION AND QUALIFICATION OF CANDIDATES AND PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS · Parte 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS

21-2-130. Procedures for qualification of candidates generally.

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Actualizado hasta: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

El texto siguiente es la ley tal como la imprime el estado, en inglés.

  1. Candidates may qualify for an election as follows:

  2. (1)

    Nomination through a political party primary;#

  3. (2)

    Filing a notice of candidacy and affidavit and paying a qualifying fee or filing a pauper’s affidavit with a pauper’s petition in conjunction with:#

    1. (A)

      Filing a nomination petition declared lawful pursuant to Code Section 21-2-171 either as an independent candidate or as a nominee of a political body, if duly certified by the chairperson and the secretary of the political body as having been nominated in a duly constituted political body convention as prescribed in Code Section 21-2-172;#

    2. (B)

      Nomination for a state-wide office by a duly constituted political body convention as prescribed in Code Section 21-2-172 if the political body making the nomination has qualified to nominate candidates for state-wide public office under the provisions of Code Section 21-2-180;#

    3. (C)

      Candidacy in a special election as prescribed in subsection (e) of Code Section 21-2-132;#

    4. (D)

      Qualifying as an incumbent candidate to succeed such incumbent as prescribed in subsection (e) of Code Section 21-2-132; or#

    5. (E)

      Candidacy for election to a nonpartisan office;#

  4. (3)

    In the case of an election for presidential electors, nomination as prescribed by rules of a political party and subsection (f) of Code Section 21-2-153; or#

  5. (4)

    Substitute nomination by a political party or body as prescribed in Code Section 21-2-134.#

Las notas siguientes se imprimen con la sección, pero no son ley promulgada (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). Se muestran aparte del texto.

History

Code 1933, § 34-1001, enacted by Ga. L. 1970, p. 347, § 13; Ga. L. 1983, p. 1190, § 2; Ga. L. 1986, p. 890, § 1; Ga. L. 1997, p. 590, § 6; Ga. L. 1998, p. 295, § 1; Ga. L. 2001, p. 269, § 3; Ga. L. 2017, p. 697, § 2/HB 268.

Editor's notes

Ga. L. 1983, p. 1190, § 1, not codified by the General Assembly, provided that it was the intent of that Act to implement the provisions of Ga. Const. 1983, Art. VI, Sec. VII, Para. I.

Law reviews

For article discussing the impact on bond issues of challenges to voting procedures, see 15 Ga. St. B. J. 15 (1978). For note, “Georgia’s Runoff Election System Has Run Its Course,” see 54 Ga. L. Rev. 1063 (2020).

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Actualizado hasta: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

Texto leído de t21-(v18)-2023-pdf.pdf, Volumen V18, edición 2023, páginas 137 a 138; acción de fusión: carried; SHA-256 del archivo 0bbec62b36ec.