Aliens voting rights in
Georgia
Georgia
Constitution of 1868, Article II, Section 2
ARTICLE II
FRANCHISE AND ELECTIONS
Section 1. In all elections by the people the electors shall vote by
ballot.
Section 2. Every male person born in the United States and every male
person who has been naturalized, or who has legally declared his
intention to become a citizen of the United States, twenty-one years
old or upward, who shall have resided in this State six months next
preceding the election, and shall have resided thirty days in the
county in which he offers to vote, and shall have paid all taxes which
may have been required of him, and which he may have had an opportunity
of paying, agreeably to law, for the year next preceding the election
(except as hereinafter provided), shall be deemed an elector; and every
male citizen of the United States, of the age aforesaid (except as
hereinafter provided), who may be a resident of the State at the time
of the adoption of this constitution shall be deemed an elector, and
shall have all the rights of an elector, as aforesaid: Provided, That
no soldier, sailor, or marine in the military or naval service of the
United States shall acquire the rights of an elector by reason of being
stationed on duty in this State; and no person shall vote who, if
challenged, shall refuse to take the following oath:
"I do swear that I have not given or received, nor do I expect to give
or receive, any money, treat, or other thing of value, by which my
vote, or any vote, is affected, or expected to be affected at this
election, nor have I given or promised any reward, or made any threat,
by which to prevent any person from voting at this election."