06 LC 28
2598
Senate
Bill 517
By:
Senators Stephens of the 27th and Wiles of the 37th
A
BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
AN ACT
To
amend Article 6 of Chapter 2 of Title 21 of the Official Code of Georgia
Annotated, relating to registration of voters, so as to require the Secretary of
State annually to compare the electors list with certain federal data bases to
ensure the accuracy of the electors list; to provide for related matters; to
repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
BE
IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA:
SECTION
1.
Article
6 of Chapter 2 of Title 21 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating
to registration of voters, is amended by striking subsection (a) of Code Section
21-2-233, relating to comparison of change of address information supplied by
United States Postal Service with electors list, and inserting in lieu thereof a
new subsection (a) to read as follows:
∀(a)
The Secretary of State
is
authorized to
shall at least
annually cause
at his or
her discretion the official list of
electors to be compared to the change of address information supplied by the
United States Postal Service through its licensees
periodically
for the purpose of identifying those electors whose addresses have
changed.∀
SECTION
2.
Said
article is further amended by inserting a new Code Section 21-2-233.1 to read as
follows:
∀21-2-233.1.
The
Secretary of State shall at least annually cause the official list of electors
to be compared to the data bases maintained by federal agencies to ensure the
accuracy of the official list of electors and data elements contained therein.
The data bases to be used for comparison shall include those data bases
maintained by the Social Security Administration including the Social Security
Death Index, the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, the Federal
Bureau of Prisons, the United States Department of Homeland Security, and the
United States courts. The Secretary of State in his or her discretion may add
additional data bases for comparison to ensure the highest degree of accuracy of
the official list of electors. The data base comparisons shall specifically be
made for the purpose of verifying the data contained in the electors list and to
determine if any person on the official list of electors is not qualified to be
an elector due to death, citizenship, or conviction of a disqualifying felony.
If information is received as a result of these data base comparisons that
indicates an elector has incorrect information or may not be qualified to remain
on the official list of electors, the Secretary of State shall promptly cause an
investigation to be made concerning such elector and shall ensure that the
matter is resolved in an expeditious
manner.∀
SECTION
3.
All
laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are repealed.