• § 21-2-400 - Duty of Superintendent to Obtain Cards of Instruction, Blank Forms of Oaths, and Other Forms and Supplies; Preparation and Distribution of Sample or Facsimile Ballot Labels
  (a) Prior to each primary and election, the superintendent shall obtain from the Secretary of State a sufficient number of cards of instruction for...
• § 21-2-401 - Delivery of Forms and Supplies to Precincts; Distribution of Copy of Certified Electors List; Contents of List; Authentication; Return Receipts; Master List of County or Municipal Electors; Items to Be Provided At Polling Place
  (a) The cards of instruction, return sheets, tally sheets, oaths of poll officers, affidavits, and other forms and supplies required for use in each...
• § 21-2-402 - Preparation of Voter's Certificates by Secretary of State; Form of Certificates; Binders for Certificates; Other Voter's Certificates
  (a) At each primary and election, the Secretary of State shall prepare and furnish to each superintendent a suitable number of voter's certificates which...
• § 21-2-403 - Time for Opening and Closing of Polls
  At all primaries and elections the polls shall be opened at 7:00 A.M. eastern standard time or eastern daylight time, whichever is applicable, and...
• § 21-2-404 - Affording Employees Time Off to Vote
  Each employee in this state shall, upon reasonable notice to his or her employer, be permitted by his or her employer to take any...
• § 21-2-405 - Meeting of Poll Officers At Place of Primary or Election; Oaths; Failure of Poll Officer to Appear; Custodians of Voting Materials; Temporary Absence or Disability; Poll Workers Working Less Than Entire Day
  (a) The chief manager and two assistant managers shall meet in the respective places appointed for holding the primary or election in each precinct...
• § 21-2-406 - Public Performance of Duties by Officials
  Superintendents, poll officers, and other officials engaged in the conducting of primaries and elections held under this chapter shall perform their duties in public.
• § 21-2-407 - Duty of Registrars to Review Qualifications of Electors Who May Have Been Erroneously Omitted From List of Electors; Authority to Place Such Electors on the List
  The registrars shall meet at their main office during each primary or election for the purpose of considering the qualification of electors whose names...
• § 21-2-408 - Poll Watchers; Designation; Duties; Removal for Interference With Election; Reports by Poll Watchers of Infractions or Irregularities; Ineligibility of Candidates to Serve As Poll Watchers
  (a)(1) In a primary or run-off primary, each candidate entitled to have his or her name placed on the primary or run-off primary ballot...
• § 21-2-409 - Assisting Electors Who Cannot Read English or Who Have Disabilities
  (a) No elector shall receive any assistance in voting at any primary or election unless he or she is unable to read the English...
• § 21-2-409.1 - Voting by Electors Who are 75 Years of Age or Older or Disabled Electors Without Having to Wait in Line
  On election day between the hours of 9:30 A.M. and 4:30 P.M., each elector who is 75 years of age or older or who...
• § 21-2-410 - Poll Officers Authorized to Give Instructions to Electors Upon Request
  If any elector, before or after entering the voting booth, shall ask for instructions concerning the manner of voting, a poll officer may give...
• § 21-2-411 - Return of Checked List of Electors and Voter's Certificates to Superintendent; Disposition of List and Certificates by Registrars
  The chief manager in each precinct shall return a checked list of electors, reflecting those who voted, and the voter's certificates to the superintendent,...
• § 21-2-412 - Duties of Superior Courts on Days of Primaries and Elections
  At least one judge of the superior court of each judicial circuit shall be available in his or her circuit on the day of...
• § 21-2-413 - Conduct of Voters, Campaigners, and Others At Polling Places Generally
  (a) No elector shall be allowed to occupy a voting compartment or voting machine booth already occupied by another except when giving assistance as...
• § 21-2-414 - Restrictions on Campaign Activities and Public Opinion Polling Within the Vicinity of a Polling Place; Cellular Phone Use Prohibited; Prohibition of Candidates From Entering Certain Polling Places; Penalty
  (a) No person shall solicit votes in any manner or by any means or method, nor shall any person distribute or display any campaign...
• § 21-2-415 - Requirements As to Identification of Campaign Literature; Unauthorized Use of Another's Name in Connection With Campaign Material; Penalty
  Reserved. Repealed by Ga. L. 2008, p. 781, § 12, effective July 1, 2008.
• § 21-2-416 - Methods of Casting Ballots in Elections Utilizing Paper Ballots or Vote Recorders
  Reserved. Repealed by Ga. L. 1994, p. 279, § 7, effective July 1, 1994.
• § 21-2-417 - Presentation of Identification to Poll Workers; Form of Proper Identification; Swearing of Statement When Unable to Produce Proper Identification; Provisional Ballots for Those; Penalty for False Statement Under Oath
  (a) Except as provided in subsection (c) of this Code section, each elector shall present proper identification to a poll worker at or prior...
• § 21-2-417.1 - Voter Identification Card
  (a) Each county board of registrars shall provide at least one place in the county at which it shall accept applications for and issue...
• § 21-2-418 - Provisional Ballots
  (a) If a person presents himself or herself at a polling place, absentee polling place, or registration office for the purpose of casting a...
• § 21-2-419 - Validation of Provisional Ballots; Reporting to Secretary of State
  (a) A person shall cast a provisional ballot on the same type of ballot that is utilized by the county or municipality for mail-in...

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