Site Search

Users Online

None
Notice
  • Guest user account is not properly configured. Please set 'Username of Guest' option to the Username of registered user. guest_username="guest"

    --
    yvComment solution, version="1.21.1"
GEOA News
SB 82 Update  E-mail
SB 82 - Elections; provide for oaths of election superintendents/supervisors and designees of board of election

SB 82 relates to primacies and elections generally.  It provides for oaths of election superintendents and election supervisors and designees of boards of election.  It provides that appointments of poll officers will be made available to the public.  It clarifies who may vote in runoff primaries.  A runoff primary will be in continuation of the primary and only persons who were entitled to vote in the primary will be entitled to vote and only those votes cast for the persons designated for the runoff shall be counted in the tabulation and canvass of the votes cast.  Any elector who votes in the primary of one party shall not be eligible to vote in a primary runoff of any other party other than a primary runoff of the party in whose primary the election voted.  It provides that the list of persons who have qualified with the state executive committee of a political party will be provided to the office of the Secretary of State.  It clarifies the manner of appointment of registers. Electors and poll officials are allowed to use cellular phones, camera, or other electronic communication or photographic devices once the person has entered the polling place.

SB 82 received a DO PASS BY COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE from the Senate Ethics Committee.

 
SB 198 Update  E-mail
SB 198 - Elections; definitions; cover all disabilities in providing assistance in voting

SB 198 amends Chapter 2 of Title 21 of the O.C.G.A., relating to primaries and elections generally. The bill provides the definition for “disability” and “major life activities”. It covers all disabilities in providing assistance in voting.

Any absentee elector may make, either by mail, by facsimile transmission, by electronic transmission, or in person in the registrar's or absentee ballot clerk’s office, an application for an official ballot of the elector's precinct to be voted at the primary, election, or runoff. In the case of an elector residing temporarily out of the county or municipality or a physically disabled elector residing within the county or municipality, the application for the elector's absentee ballot may, upon satisfactory proof of relationship, be made by the elector's mother, father, grandparent, aunt, uncle, sister, brother, spouse, son, daughter, niece, nephew, grandchild, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, mother-in-law, father-in-law, brother-in-law, or sister-in-law of the age of 18 or over. Relatives applying for absentee ballots for electors must also sign an oath stating that facts in the application are true.

NO ACTION was taken on SB 198 by the Senate Ethics Committee.

 


Provident Penny Publishing