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2024 CODE OF GEORGIA
Title 21 - ELECTIONS (§§ 21-1-1 — 21-5-76)
Chapter 2 - ELECTIONS AND PRIMARIES GENERALLY (§§ 21-2-1 — 21-2-604)
Article 6 - REGISTRATION OF VOTERS (§§ 21-2-210 — 21-2-236)
- Section 21-2-210 - Secretary of State deemed the chief state election official
- Section 21-2-211 - List of registered electors; provision of equipment to access and utilize list
- Section 21-2-212 - County registrars; appointment; certification; term of service; vacancies; compensation and expenses of chief registrar, registrars, and other officers and employees; budget estimates
- Section 21-2-213 - County deputy registrars; clerical help; appointment of county officer or employee as chief deputy registrar
- Section 21-2-213.1 - Monthly contingent expense allowance for the operation of the office of the board of registrars
- Section 21-2-214 - Qualifications of registrars and deputy registrars; prohibited political activities; oath of office; privilege from arrest; duties conducted in public
- Section 21-2-215 - Main office of board of registrars; location; business hours; additional registration places; educators to serve as deputy registrars; training; registration cards and papers
- Section 21-2-216 - Qualifications of electors generally; reregistration of electors purged from list; eligibility of nonresidents who vote in presidential elections; retention of qualification for standing as elector; evidence of citizenship; check of convicted felons and deceased persons databases
- Section 21-2-217 - Rules for determining residence
- Section 21-2-218 - Cancellation of registration in former state or county; address changes and corrections
- Section 21-2-219 - Registration cards; form; registration by members of armed forces or merchant marine and permanent overseas citizen; Secretary of State to provide information regarding registration and absentee ballot procedures; reports regarding absentee ballots
- Section 21-2-220 - Application for registration; identification requirement; rejection for failure to provide required information or for submission of false information; aid to disabled or illiterate
- Section 21-2-220.1 - Required documentation for voter registration
- Section 21-2-221 - Driver's license or identification card application as application for voter registration
- Section 21-2-221.1 - Voter registration incorporated into resident hunting, fishing, or trapping license; design of forms; record keeping; opting out by businesses selling alcohol for on-premises consumption
- Section 21-2-221.2 - Voter registration application for electronic voter registration
- Section 21-2-222 - Designated voter registration agencies and offices; definitions; duties of agencies and offices
- Section 21-2-223 - Mail voter registration application forms
- Section 21-2-224 - Registration deadlines; restrictions on voting in primaries; official list of electors; voting procedure when portion of county changed from one county to another
- Section 21-2-225 - Restrictions on public inspection of applications for voter registration and data on electors; membership of Secretary of State in nongovernmental entity for purpose of improving voter registration systems
- Section 21-2-225.1 - Confidentiality of address of registered electors; term of request; procedure
- Section 21-2-226 - Duties of county board in determining eligibility of voters; maps of municipal boundaries; notice of ineligibility; issuance of registration cards; reimbursement for postage cost
- Section 21-2-227 - Duty of registrars to furnish list of electors for elections held in governmental subdivisions
- Section 21-2-228 - Examination of electors' qualifications; subpoenas; notice and hearing; right of appeal
- Section 21-2-229 - Challenge of applicant for registration by other electors; notice and hearing; right of appeal; sanctions for board's noncompliance
- Section 21-2-230 - Challenge of persons on list of electors by other electors; procedure; hearing; right of appeal
- Section 21-2-231 - Identification of convicted felons, noncitizens, persons declared mentally incompetent, and deceased persons and process for removal of such persons from list of electors; inactive voter list
- Section 21-2-232 - Removal of elector's name from list of electors
- Section 21-2-233 - Comparison of change of address information supplied by United States Postal Service with electors list; removal from list of electors; notice to electors
- Section 21-2-234 - Electors who have failed to vote and with whom there has been no contact in five years; confirmation notice requirements and procedure; time for completion of list maintenance activities
- Section 21-2-235 - Inactive list of electors
- Section 21-2-236 - Periods of retention of registration cards, applications, and records of list maintenance activities; rules and regulations regarding safekeeping and maintenance of electronic records
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