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HB 487 — Elections; primaries; voting; provisions

Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute

A BILL to be entitled 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 provide that the candidate who receives the most votes in a primary, special primary, election, or special election, other than a municipal primary, municipal special primary, municipal election, or municipal special election shall be nominated or elected, provided that the votes for such candidate exceed 45 percent of the total votes cast in that contest in the primary, special primary, election, or special election; to provide a definition; to change the date of the presidential preference primary in Georgia; to change the date by which the parties must submit names to the Secretary of State for inclusion on the ballot and the date on which the Secretary of State shall publish such list of names; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.

Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute

Legislative term
Georgia General Assembly 2007-2008
Session
2007-2008 Regular Session
Chamber or committee
Georgia House of Representatives
Measure type
Bill
Introduced
Feb 20, 2007

Bill timeline (13)

Votes on this bill (1)

Sponsorships (1)

Austin Scott

Primary sponsor
Office service
State Representative · District 153 · From Jan 1, 2005
Role in source
Georgia sponsorType=1; sequence=1; Scott, Austin; sponsorship listed in session 18; start uses sourced bill introduction date
From
Feb 20, 2007

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