2021 Georgia Code
Title 21 - Elections
Chapter 2 - Elections and Primaries Generally
Article 9 - Voting Machines and Vote Recorders Generally
Part 2 - Voting Machines
§ 21-2-320. Power of Municipal Governing Authority to Authorize Use of and to Procure Voting Machines
The governing authority of any municipality may at any regular meeting or at a special meeting called for the purpose, by a majority vote, authorize and direct the use of voting machines for recording and computing the vote at all elections held in the municipality; and thereupon the governing authority shall purchase, lease, rent, or otherwise procure voting machines conforming to the requirements of this part.
(Code 1933, § 34-1202, enacted by Ga. L. 1964, Ex. Sess., p. 26, § 1; Ga. L. 1998, p. 295, § 1; Ga. L. 2005, p. 253, § 38/HB 244.)
RESEARCH REFERENCES
Am. Jur. 2d.
- 26 Am. Jur. 2d, Elections, § 307.
C.J.S.- 29 C.J.S., Elections, §§ 261, 337, 338.
ALR.
- Constitutionality of statutes providing for use of voting machines, 66 A.L.R. 855.
