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AN ACT To amend Chapter 2 of Title 21 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to elections and primaries generally, so as to remove the Secretary of State from the State Election Board; to provide additional conflict of interest provisions for state-wide and local election officers, officials, and employees relating to businesses providing goods and services related to voting equipment or any other equipment related to the tabulation, auditing, processing, or scanning of ballots; to provide for ballot access to certain political parties or political bodies relating to nomination of presidential electors and candidates; to provide for definitions; to revise provisions for determining residency for election purposes; to revise provisions related to challenging electors; to provide that the text portions or machine marks on ballots produced by ballot marking devices shall be counted for vote tabulation and recount purposes instead of any machine coding; to authorize the use of physical ballots in certain circumstances; to provide for chain of custody and related procedures for absentee ballots; to provide timelines for the tabulation of absentee ballots and ballots cast by advance voting; to provide procedures for requesting high resolution scanned images of ballots; to provide for a pilot program to audit paper ballots using optical character recognition; to revise a timing limitation on holding certain special elections in conjunction with certain state-wide primaries or elections; to provide for related matters; to provide effective dates; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.

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John Albers (R)*,  Jason Anavitarte (R)*,  Matt Brass (R)*,  Max Burns (R)*,  Clint Dixon (R)*,  Greg Dolezal (R)*,  Frank Ginn (R)*,  Steve Gooch (R)*,  Russ Goodman (R)*,  Marty Harbin (R)*,  John Kennedy (R)*,  Kay Kirkpatrick (R)*,  Colton Moore (R)*,  Chuck Payne (R)*,  Randy Robertson (R)*,  Ed Setzler (R)*,  Sam Watson (R)*,  Rick Williams (R)*,  John LaHood (R), 

Act 697 (on 05/06/2024)

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