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2006 Georgia Code - 21-4-8
21-4-8. (a) All signers of a single recall petition
shall be electors who are registered and eligible to vote in the
recall election and who reside in the electoral district of the
officer sought to be recalled. When a petition for the recall of a
public official is circulated in more than one county, each sheet
of the petition shall bear the name of the county in which it is
circulated, and only electors of the designated county may sign
such sheet. No recall petition shall be circulated or signed by any
person in any location where alcoholic beverages are sold or
served. (b) Every elector
signing a recall petition shall do so in the presence of the person
circulating the petition, who is to execute the affidavit of
verification on the reverse side of the petition form. At the time
of signing, the elector shall sign his name, and such elector or
the person circulating the petition shall print the name of the
elector below the elector´s signature and shall print or
write in the appropriate spaces following the signature the
elector´s residence address, giving number and street or
route and city, the name of the county, and the date on which the
elector signed the petition. No notary public may sign the petition
as an elector or serve as a circulator of any petition which he or
she notarized. Any and all sheets of a recall petition that have
the circulator´s affidavit notarized by a notary public who
also served as a circulator of one or more sheets of the recall
petition or who signed one of the sheets of the petition as an
elector shall be disqualified and rejected. (c) If an elector is incapable of signing his or
her own name, he or she may specifically request the circulator of
the petition to sign and print his or her name and complete the
information required on the petition sheet to accompany the
signature; provided, however, that the circulator shall also sign
his or her full name beside the printed name of such
elector. (d) The person
before whom the electors signed the recall petition shall verify,
in an affidavit subscribed and sworn to by him or her before a
notary public, that each of the names on the petition form was
signed in his or her presence on the date indicated and that in his
or her belief each signer was an elector of the electoral district
of the officer sought to be recalled. (e) The affidavit printed on the reverse side of
each recall petition form shall be in the following
form:
AFFIDAVIT OF CIRCULATOR
State of Georgia
County of __________
Under the penalty of a violation of Code Section 16-10-71 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to false swearing, punishable by a fine not to exceed $1,000.00 or by imprisonment of not less than one nor more than five years, or both, I do depose and say that I am an elector registered to vote in the recall election herein petitioned for and that each petitioner signed or caused to be signed the foregoing petition in my presence on the date indicated; and I believe that each signer´s name and residence address are correctly stated, and that each signer is an elector of the electoral district in which such recall election will be conducted, and that each signer has read, or was read, the required statements which are also set out on each petition.
(Signature of affiant) ____________________________
(Residence address) ____________________________
(Number and street or route)
_______________
(City)
Subscribed and sworn to
before me this ________
day of ______________, ____.
__________________
Notary public
__________, Georgia My commission expires on the ______ day of ______________, ____. (f) An elector may change the way his or her signature and residence address appear on the recall petition at any time prior to the filing of the petition for verification by striking through his or her name and initialing the strike-through and re-signing the petition with his or her printed name corrected accordingly.
AFFIDAVIT OF CIRCULATOR
State of Georgia
County of __________
Under the penalty of a violation of Code Section 16-10-71 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to false swearing, punishable by a fine not to exceed $1,000.00 or by imprisonment of not less than one nor more than five years, or both, I do depose and say that I am an elector registered to vote in the recall election herein petitioned for and that each petitioner signed or caused to be signed the foregoing petition in my presence on the date indicated; and I believe that each signer´s name and residence address are correctly stated, and that each signer is an elector of the electoral district in which such recall election will be conducted, and that each signer has read, or was read, the required statements which are also set out on each petition.
(Signature of affiant) ____________________________
(Residence address) ____________________________
(Number and street or route)
_______________
(City)
Subscribed and sworn to
before me this ________
day of ______________, ____.
__________________
Notary public
__________, Georgia My commission expires on the ______ day of ______________, ____. (f) An elector may change the way his or her signature and residence address appear on the recall petition at any time prior to the filing of the petition for verification by striking through his or her name and initialing the strike-through and re-signing the petition with his or her printed name corrected accordingly.
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