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Georgia Statutes § 21-2-567 Intimidation of electors

⤴ Up to Article 15: Miscellaneous Offenses

Statute Text

(a) Any person who uses or threatens to use force and violence, or acts in any other manner to intimidate any other person, to:
(1) Vote or refrain from voting at any primary or election, or to vote or refrain from voting for or against any particular candidate or question submitted to electors at such primary or election; or
(2) Place or refrain from placing his or her name upon a register of electors
shall be guilty of a felony and, upon conviction thereof, shall be sentenced to imprisonment for not less than one nor more than ten years or to pay a fine not to exceed $100,000.00, or both.
(b) As used in this Code section, the term "acts in any other manner to intimidate" means to undertake or pursue a knowing and willful course of conduct which causes emotional distress by placing another person in reasonable fear for such person's safety or for the safety of another person and which serves no legitimate purpose.

History

Amended by 2008 Ga. Laws 706 , § 17 , eff. 7/1/2008 .

Amended by 2007 Ga. Laws 259 , § 6 , eff. 7/1/2007 .

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