Removal or Destruction of Election Supplies or Conveniences

  1. Law
  2. Georgia Code
  3. Elections
  4. Elections and Primaries Generally
  5. Miscellaneous Offenses
  6. Removal or Destruction of Election Supplies or Conveniences

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Any person who:

  1. Prior to any primary or election, willfully defaces, removes, or destroys any notice or list of candidates posted in accordance with this chapter;
  2. During any primary or election, willfully defaces, tears down, removes, or destroys any card of instructions, notice of penalties, or diagram printed or posted for the instruction of electors; or
  3. During any primary or election, willfully removes or destroys any of the supplies or conveniences furnished to any polling place in order to enable electors to vote or the poll officers to perform their duties

    shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

(Code 1933, § 34-1918, enacted by Ga. L. 1964, Ex. Sess., p. 26, § 1; Ga. L. 1998, p. 295, § 1.)

OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL

Fingerprinting not required.

- An offense under O.C.G.A. § 21-2-583 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, §§ 575, 576.


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