{"data":{"id":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-21-2-130","jurisdiction":"us-ga","citation":"O.C.G.A. § 21-2-130","heading":"Procedures for qualification of candidates generally.","body":"Candidates may qualify for an election as follows:\n(1) Nomination through a political party primary;\n(2) Filing a notice of candidacy and affidavit and paying a qualifying fee or filing a pauper’s affidavit with a pauper’s petition in conjunction with:\n(A) Filing a nomination petition declared lawful pursuant to Code Section 21-2-171 either as an independent candidate or as a nominee of a political body, if duly certified by the chairperson and the secretary of the political body as having been nominated in a duly constituted political body convention as prescribed in Code Section 21-2-172;\n(B) Nomination for a state-wide office by a duly constituted political body convention as prescribed in Code Section 21-2-172 if the political body making the nomination has qualified to nominate candidates for state-wide public office under the provisions of Code Section 21-2-180;\n(C) Candidacy in a special election as prescribed in subsection (e) of Code Section 21-2-132;\n(D) Qualifying as an incumbent candidate to succeed such incumbent as prescribed in subsection (e) of Code Section 21-2-132; or\n(E) Candidacy for election to a nonpartisan office;\n(3) In the case of an election for presidential electors, nomination as prescribed by rules of a political party and subsection (f) of Code Section 21-2-153; or\n(4) Substitute nomination by a political party or body as prescribed in Code Section 21-2-134.","path":["TITLE 21 Elections","CHAPTER 2 Elections and Primaries Generally","Article 4 Selection and Qualification of Candidates and Presidential Electors","PART 1 General Provisions"],"source_url":"https://archive.org/download/gov.ga.ocga.2018/release86.2022.11/gov.ga.ocga.title.21.odt","current_through":"Release 86 (2022-11)","vintage":"Public.Resource.Org bulk O.C.G.A., Release 86 (2022-11), retrieved 2026-09-17","retrieved_at":"2026-09-17T19:34:57Z","sha256":"0fdb28fc7310a3dfd42616f6be83dc445c7061acbc6e12cc4be0be54191a22dd","source_id":"us-ga","stale":false,"prev":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-21-2-113","next":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-21-2-131"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}