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(4) Maintenance of all voting equipment required by this chapter, or which the
superintendent shall consider necessary to carry out this chapter; and
(5) All other expenses arising out of the performance of his or her duties under this
chapter.
(b) No superintendent shall take or accept any funding, grants, or gifts from any source
other than from the governing authority of the county or municipality, the State of Georgia,
or the federal government.
(c) The State Election Board shall study and report to the General Assembly a proposed
method for accepting donations intended to facilitate the administration of elections and
a method for an equitable distribution of such donations state wide by October 1, 2021."
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SECTION 10.
Said chapter is further amended in Part 3 of Article 2, relating to superintendents, by adding
a new Code section to read as follows:
"21-2-74.1.
(a) If a county does not have a board of elections and:
(1) There is a vacancy in the office of judge of the probate court that has not been filled
pursuant to Code Section 15-9-10 or 15-9-11; or
(2) The judge of the probate court is incapacitated and unable to perform the duties of
the election superintendent for a period of more than five days;
The chief judge of the superior court in the circuit to which the county is assigned shall
appoint a qualified individual to serve as the acting election superintendent during such
vacancy or incapacitation.
(b) Upon the filling of a vacancy in the office of judge of the probate court pursuant to
Code Section 15-9-10 or 15-9-11, the judge of the probate court shall resume the duties of
the election superintendent.
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