Legal Opinion
Spalding County Board of Elections v. McCord
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided October 4, 2010No. S10A0864PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
NAHMIAS, Justice.
On December 1, 2009, the Spalding County Board of Elections supervised a run-off election for the District 6 seat on the City of Griffin Board of Commissioners. The incumbent, appellee Rodney McCord, lost by 25 votes to appellant Shaheer Beyah. McCord filed a timely election contest in the Superior Court of Spalding County, alleging that a number of electors greater than the margin of victory in the runoff had illegally cast absentee ballots because they did not have one of the six reasons for voting by absentee ballot specified in OCGA § 21-2-380 (a).
As OCGA § 21-2-380…
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