EAIElectoral Access Index
How accessible is the franchise under codified procedure?
Dimensions
Administration
100.0% · 1/1| Datapoint | Score | Rationale & evidence | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| ADMIN.1Election administration independenceIs the election administration body's independence (appointment by multiple branches, fixed terms, balanced political composition) codified in statute or constitution? | 1/1100.0% | Election Code Article 7 codifies CEC independence: 'The Electoral Administration of Georgia is an independent administrative body that shall be independent from other public bodies, within its powers.' Article 13 codifies multi-party appointment of CEC members. Article 24 codifies 13-member PEC composition with mixed appointment (6 DEC-elected + 7 party-appointed). Constitutional grounding in Constitution Article 66 (not surfaced). | § view source 2026-05-18 |
Eligibility
40.0% · 2/5| Datapoint | Score | Rationale & evidence | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| ELIG.1Age and residency in constitutionAre the minimum age and residency requirements for voting set in the constitution (rather than statute alone)? | 1/1100.0% | Constitution Article 24(1) codifies the constitutional voting age: 'Every citizen of Georgia who has attained the age of 18 shall have the right to participate in referendums and elections.' Election Code Article 3(a.a) reinforces. Constitutional framing of suffrage age. | § view source 2026-05-18 |
| ELIG.2Disqualification frameworkIf voters can be disqualified (felony, mental incompetence), are the criteria and the duration codified in statute, with a defined restoration procedure? | 1/333.3% | Constitution Article 31 codifies procedural rights including trial. Article 24 (in ELIG.1 candidates) codifies the voting age and restrictions ('individuals recognised as legally incapable by a court, or persons in custody under a court judgement for committing a particularly grave crime, shall not have the right to participate in elections or referendums'). The constitutional disqualification framework exists but the specific statutory disqualification procedures weren't directly FTS-surfaced for this datapoint. | § view source 2026-05-18 |
| ELIG.3Restoration of voting rightsWhere rights are lost (e.g., post-felony), is the procedure for restoration codified, with statutory deadlines and automatic restoration where applicable? | 0/10.0% | No section in the FTS-surfaced candidates satisfies this criterion. Best signal: Constitution Article 37 (parliamentary elections) — not restoration. Restoration of voting rights upon completion of sentence/incapacity-decree is implicit in the Constitution Article 24(2) but no codified restoration procedure surfaced. | § view source 2026-05-18 |
Identification
0.0% · 0/5| Datapoint | Score | Rationale & evidence | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| ID.1Statutory groundingIf ID is required at any point in voting, is the requirement set in statute rather than regulation? If no ID is required, is that explicit in statute? | 0/10.0% | No candidate sections returned by FTS. | no FTS match 2026-05-18 |
| ID.2Enumerated acceptable IDsAre the acceptable ID forms exhaustively enumerated in statute, not left to administrator discretion? | 0/10.0% | No section in the FTS-surfaced candidates satisfies this criterion. Best signal: Article 75 covers DEC summarisation. The ID requirement + enumeration lives in Election Code Article 64 (inking) + Article 65 (voter identification at polling place) — not FTS-surfaced here. | § view source 2026-05-18 |
| ID.3Free alternative IDIf government-issued ID is required, is a free state-issued ID available by statute to anyone who lacks one? | 0/10.0% | No section in the FTS-surfaced candidates satisfies this criterion. Best signal: Article 185 (transitional provisions) — unrelated to free state ID. | § view source 2026-05-18 |
| ID.4At-polls cure procedureIs the cure procedure for a voter who arrives without ID (provisional ballot, affidavit, return-with-ID, signature match) defined in statute? | 0/10.0% | No candidate sections returned by FTS. | no FTS match 2026-05-18 |
| ID.5Rejection appeal procedureIs the appeal procedure for a rejected ID (or rejected provisional ballot due to ID) codified in statute? | 0/10.0% | No section in the FTS-surfaced candidates satisfies this criterion. Best signal: Article 31 (unified list of voters) is voter-register, not ID-rejection appeal. Article 74 (in REG.4 cands) covers complaints procedure — partially applicable but not specifically ID-appeal. | § view source 2026-05-18 |
Registration
35.7% · 3/7| Datapoint | Score | Rationale & evidence | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| REG.1Statutory registration deadlineIs the registration cutoff relative to election day defined by statute (not regulation or administrative directive)? | 1/1100.0% | Election Code Article 100(1) codifies the 30-day-pre-election candidate-registration deadline. Article 113 codifies party registration deadlines. Article 31 (in REG.4 cands) codifies the unified-voter-list registration cutoffs. Statutory deadlines codified. | § view source 2026-05-18 |
| REG.2Enumerated registration methodsAre the available registration methods (in-person, mail, online, motor-voter, automatic, same-day where applicable) exhaustively enumerated in statute? | 0/10.0% | No section in the FTS-surfaced candidates satisfies this criterion. Best signal: Article 50 covers campaign media coverage; Article 185 (transitional). Georgia uses automatic registration from Civil Registry — codified in Election Code Article 31 (in REG.4 cands, partially surfaced) but the enumeration of methods isn't crisply captured for this datapoint. | § view source 2026-05-18 |
| REG.3Cure procedure for incomplete registrationDoes statute define a cure procedure when a registration is rejected as incomplete? | 0.5/150.0% | Article 38 codifies CEC/DEC verification of supporter lists with correction opportunities. Article 70 covers summary protocols. Article 117 codifies party-list registration verification + correction. Cure procedures for candidate registration exist; voter-registration cure lives in Article 31 (partial). | § view source 2026-05-18 |
| REG.4Rejection challenge rightIs the voter's right to challenge a rejected or removed registration codified in statute? | 1/1100.0% | Article 74 codifies the complaints procedure: 'A DEC secretary shall, upon the receipt of an application/complaint... register the application/complaint.' Article 41 (rights of observers) reinforces standing. Article 31 codifies voter-register challenge mechanisms. | § view source 2026-05-18 |
| REG.5Roll-maintenance criteria in statuteAre the criteria for removing voters from rolls (death, change of address, inactivity) defined in statute, not regulation? | 0/20.0% | No candidate sections returned by FTS. | no FTS match 2026-05-18 |
| REG.6Pre-purge notice & cure periodIs a statutory notice-and-opportunity-to-cure required before a voter is removed from the rolls? | 0/10.0% | Article 31 codifies voter-list formation; Article 14 codifies CEC duties. Specific pre-purge notice-and-cure procedure not directly surfaced — but voter-list public posting under Article 34 provides the de facto notice + cure window. | § view source 2026-05-18 |
Roll Integrity
0.0% · 0/1| Datapoint | Score | Rationale & evidence | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| ROLL.1Voter-data security & breach notificationIs the data security regime for the voter registry (encryption requirements, breach notification, access logs) codified in statute? | 0/10.0% | No section in the FTS-surfaced candidates satisfies this criterion. Best signal: Article 8 covers election-commission rules of operation generally. No specific voter-registry data-security regime (encryption, breach notification) codified in surfaced corpus. | § view source 2026-05-18 |
Voter Assistance
0.0% · 0/3| Datapoint | Score | Rationale & evidence | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| ASSIST.1Language assistance thresholdAre the triggers for language assistance (bilingual ballots, language-minority population thresholds) codified in statute? | 0/10.0% | No candidate sections returned by FTS. | no FTS match 2026-05-18 |
| ASSIST.2Disability assistanceIs the right to be assisted in voting by a person of the voter's choosing — and the rules for who may assist — codified in statute? | 0/10.0% | Constitution Article 11 prohibits discrimination based on disability. Article 65 of Election Code codifies voter assistance but didn't FTS-surface for this datapoint. The disability-assistance procedure exists but wasn't directly surfaced. | § view source 2026-05-18 |
| ASSIST.3Illiteracy assistanceIs assistance for voters who cannot read codified, with a defined procedure protecting ballot secrecy? | 0/10.0% | No candidate sections returned by FTS. | no FTS match 2026-05-18 |