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GA SB221
Bill
Status
Introduced
2/21/2023
Primary Sponsor
Max Burns
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AI Summary
- Requires any person employed or retained by a county election superintendent to conduct election duties to be a United States citizen
- Changes motor-voter registration from an automatic opt-out system to an opt-in system, requiring applicants to affirmatively sign a voter registration application rather than being registered by default
- Revises voter residency rules to automatically deem a person as having changed residency if they register to vote in another jurisdiction, prohibits using a P.O. box as proof of residency, and expands the types of evidence registrars may consider when determining residence
- Expands the grounds for challenging an elector's registration to include registration in a different jurisdiction, homestead exemption in a different jurisdiction, missing/invalid date of birth or address, and registration at a nonresidential address; also allows USPS National Change of Address data to constitute sufficient cause to sustain a challenge
- Expands the crime of interfering with poll officers (a felony) to cover interference with or intimidation of any election official, and creates a new misdemeanor for county or municipal election superintendents who willfully neglect or refuse to call an election required by a local Act of the General Assembly
Legislative Description
Primaries and Elections; the language that must be used on absentee ballot applications distributed by persons or entities; revise
Last Action
Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute
2/22/2024
Committee Referrals
Ethics2/22/2023
Full Bill Text
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