Improper Signing or Alteration of Nomination Petitions or Affidavits

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  2. Georgia Code
  3. Elections
  4. Elections and Primaries Generally
  5. Miscellaneous Offenses
  6. Improper Signing or Alteration of Nomination Petitions or Affidavits

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Any person who knowingly and willfully:

  1. Signs any nomination petition without having the qualifications prescribed by this chapter;
  2. Sets any false statement opposite the signature on a nomination petition;
  3. Signs more nomination petitions than permitted by this chapter;
  4. Makes a false statement in any affidavit required by this chapter to be appended to or to accompany a nomination petition;
  5. Signs any name not his or her own to any nomination petition; or
  6. Materially alters any nomination petition without the consent of the signers

    shall be guilty of a felony.

(Code 1933, §§ 34-1908, 34-1909, enacted by Ga. L. 1964, Ex. Sess., p. 26, § 1; Ga. L. 1998, p. 295, § 1.)

RESEARCH REFERENCES

ALR.

- Nonregistration as affecting one's qualification as signer of petition for special election, submission of proposition, or nominating petition, 100 A.L.R. 1308.


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