{"data":{"id":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-21-2-373","jurisdiction":"us-ga","citation":"O.C.G.A. § 21-2-373","heading":"Write-in votes; secrecy.","body":"In elections, electors shall be permitted to cast write-in votes. The design of the ballot shall permit the superintendents, in counting the write-in votes, to determine readily whether an elector has cast any write-in vote not authorized by law. The Secretary of State, in specifying the form of the ballot, and the State Election Board, in promulgating rules and regulations respecting the conduct of elections, shall provide for ballot secrecy in connection with write-in votes.","path":["TITLE 21 Elections","CHAPTER 2 Elections and Primaries Generally","Article 9 Voting Machines and Vote Recorders Generally","PART 4 Optical Scanning Voting Systems"],"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":"33b686b3f37b4d4c5aaf6b81586d01fde84db6473c2f88558bcfe2fce2e4602f","source_id":"us-ga","stale":false,"prev":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-21-2-372","next":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-21-2-374"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}