2020 Georgia Code
Title 21 - Elections
Chapter 2 - Elections and Primaries Generally
Article 15 - Miscellaneous Offenses
§ 21-2-568. Entry Into Voting Compartment or Booth While Another Voting; Interfering With Elector; Inducing Elector to Reveal or Revealing Elector's Vote; Influencing Voter While Assisting

1. Any person who knowingly:
   1. Goes into the voting compartment or voting machine booth while another is voting or marks the ballot or registers the vote for another, except in strict accordance with this chapter;
   2. Interferes with any elector marking his or her ballot or registering his or her vote;
   3. Attempts to induce any elector before depositing his or her ballot to show how he or she marks or has marked his or her ballot; or
   4. Discloses to anyone how another elector voted, without said elector's consent, except when required to do so in any legal proceeding

      shall be guilty of a felony.

2. Any person who, while giving lawful assistance to another, attempts to influence the vote of the elector he or she is assisting or marks a ballot or registers a vote in any other way than that requested by the voter he or she is assisting shall be guilty of a felony and, upon conviction thereof, shall be sentenced to imprisonment for not less than one nor more than ten years or to pay a fine not to exceed $100,000.00, or both.

(Code 1933, § 34-1926, enacted by Ga. L. 1964, Ex. Sess., p. 26, § 1; Ga. L. 1989, p. 1090, § 1; Ga. L. 1998, p. 295, § 1; Ga. L. 2007, p. 536, § 7/SB 40; Ga. L. 2008, p. 781, § 18/HB 1112; Ga. L. 2010, p. 914, § 27/HB 540.)

- Conduct by electors within voting compartment or booth, and as to campaign activities within vicinity of polling place, §§ 21-2-413,21-2-414.

OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL

Fingerprinting not required.

- An offense under O.C.G.A. § 21-2-568 would not be designated as one which requires fingerprinting. 1998 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 98-20.

RESEARCH REFERENCES

C.J.S.

- 29 C.J.S., Elections, §§ 568 et seq., 581 et seq.