Blake Evans Fulton County Elections Chief (404) 612-7033 joseph.evans@fultoncountyga.gov # of Active Voters: 746,138 # of Election Day Polling Places: 207 # of Advance Voting Locations: 24
Write-In Candidates: Qualifying and Tabulating GAVREO Conference December 2019
Notable Write-In Candidates Who Have Won • Some former Presidents have won state Presidential Primaries as write-in candidates. • Herbert Hoover, Dwight Eisenhower, and Franklin D. Roosevelt • A current US Senator from Alaska won a 2010 Senate contest as a write-in. • Other local elections where write-in candidates have had success. • 2005 Mayoral Election in Hillsdale, Michigan • 1967 Mayoral Election in Picoazá, Ecuador GAVREO Conference December 2019
How Write-In Candidates Qualify in Georgia • OCGA 21-2-133 • Includes information about the following: • Filing and publishing a notice of intent of candidacy. • Filing an affidavit. • Limitations on candidacy. • Certification of write-in candidates. GAVREO Conference December 2019
How Write-In Candidates Qualify in Georgia • Filing and Publishing Deadlines • County, State, and Federal Elections • No earlier than January 1 st ; no later than the first Tuesday after the first Monday in September. • Nonpartisan Elections for State or County Offices; Municipal General Elections; and Special Elections • No later than 7 days after the close of the qualifying period. GAVREO Conference December 2019
How Write-In Candidates Qualify in Georgia • How and Where to File and Publish • State General or Special Election • Filed with Secretary of State and published in a newspaper of general circulation. • County General or Special Election • Filed with county Superintendent and published in the county’s official organ. • Municipal General or Special Election • Filed with city superintendent and published in the city’s official gazette. GAVREO Conference December 2019
What if A Representative of the Candidate Files Qualifying Documents? • The representative(s) must meet all previous filing and publication requirements. • The representative(s) must have written, notarized authorization from the candidate. • The representative(s) must also file: • A copy of the notice as published with an affidavit stating that the notice has been published. • The newspaper name should be included. • The affidavit can be made by: • Candidate representative(s) • Newspaper publisher • Designated newspaper employee GAVREO Conference December 2019
Other Notes about Qualifying as a Write-in • OCGA 21-2-133(c) • “No person shall be eligible as a write-in candidate in a special or general primary, a special or general primary runoff, or in a special or general election runoff.” GAVREO Conference December 2019
Certifying Write-In Candidates • OCGA 21-2-133(e) • The Secretary of State must certify write-in candidates within 5 days following submission deadline, and the names must be sent to counties. • Counties and cities must certify write-in candidates within 5 days. GAVREO Conference December 2019
How We will Tabulate Results OCGA 21-2-483 • “For any election for which there is a qualified write-in • candidate, the feature on precinct count and central count tabulators allowing separation of write-in votes shall be utilized.” Dominion Voting System Features • Precinct Scanners – ImageCast Precinct (ICP) • Write-in votes will fall into a separate bin. • GAVREO Conference December 2019
How We will Tabulate Results Dominion Voting System Features • Central Scanners • As batches of ballots are accepted, write-in votes can be • accepted using the adjudication module. Depends partially on configuration of your laptops • and central scanners. All devices will communicate via closed network • connections. GAVREO Conference December 2019
How We will Tabulate Results Write-in Reports • ICP Reports • The precinct scanner can print the image of every write- • in vote on the end-of-night tape. Central Server Reports • You will have the ability to view all write-in results and • assign the correct tally to qualified write-ins. You can print election results reports so that the vote for • all qualified candidates are shown. GAVREO Conference December 2019
How We will Tabulate Results OCGA 21-2-499 • (c) “The Secretary of State shall not count, tabulate, or • publish the names of any write-in candidates for whom the notice of intention of candidacy has not been provided in compliance with Code Section 21-2-133.” GAVREO Conference December 2019
GAVREO Conference December 2019
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