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Georgia ballot · Nov. 3, 2026Checked Oct. 21, 2026

3 statewide measures on the ballot.

Three statewide questions are on Georgia's Nov. 3, 2026 ballot, all constitutional amendments proposed by the General Assembly; Georgia has no citizen initiative, and no statewide referendum question (an act referred to all voters) is on this ballot. An amendment needs two-thirds of the members of each house and then a majority of the votes cast on it at the next general election (Ga. Const. art. X, sec. I, para. II); it takes effect the following Jan. 1 unless it says otherwise. Amendment 1 (House Resolution 32) was adopted in 2025 and the other two (House Resolutions 251 and 1243) in 2026; all three appear in the 2025-2026 Regular Session on legis.ga.gov. The ballot question of each is official text: it is written into Section 2 of the resolution as passed by the House and Senate (saved from legis.ga.gov), and the build checks that Fulton and White counties' ballots print the same words. The short headings above each question are official text as printed on those ballots (set by the Constitutional Amendments Publication Board). The Secretary of State's 2026 amendment booklet (read, not saved) also lists exactly these three amendments and no statewide referendum, and the statewide section of the Fulton, DeKalb, White and Houston ballots shows the same three and nothing else. Local questions on those ballots (city or county acts, ESPLOST and TSPLOST) are not statewide and are left out. The two-sentence summaries are ours.

Amendment 1 · Legislatively referred constitutional amendment (House Resolution 32, 2025-2026 Regular Session; Ga. L. 2025, p. 1081)

Increases the maximum qualifying acreage for assessment and taxation as bona fide conservation use property.

Doubles, from 2,000 to 4,000 acres, the most farm and timber land a single owner can enroll in Georgia's conservation-use program, which taxes qualifying land on its current use rather than its market value. The rest of the program is unchanged: owners still sign a covenant to keep the land in that use, and breaking it within ten years brings back the tax savings plus possible penalties.

Passes with: Majority of the votes cast on the question (Ga. Const. art. X, sec. I, para. II).

Official ballot summary (the state’s text)

Shall the Constitution of Georgia, for the purpose of protecting family farmland, be amended so as to increase the maximum acreage to qualify for assessment and taxation as a bona fide conservation use property from 2,000 acres to 4,000 acres?

No primarily formed committees found in state records.

Sources: Georgia General Assembly, House Resolution 32 (2025-2026 Regular Session), as passed House and Senate (LC 44 3014S/AP); Full text.

Amendment 2 · Legislatively referred constitutional amendment (House Resolution 251, 2025-2026 Regular Session; Ga. L. 2026, p. 1110)

Provides for the nonpartisan election of all probate court judges.

Adds probate judges to the constitutional rule that superior court, state court and appellate judges are elected on a nonpartisan basis, so every probate judge in Georgia would be elected without a party label. Probate judges' terms would stay as the constitution's county-officer provision sets them.

Passes with: Majority of the votes cast on the question (Ga. Const. art. X, sec. I, para. II).

Official ballot summary (the state’s text)

Shall the Constitution of Georgia be amended so as to require that all probate court judges be elected in nonpartisan elections?

No primarily formed committees found in state records.

Sources: Georgia General Assembly, House Resolution 251 (2025-2026 Regular Session), as passed House and Senate (LC 47 3339/AP); Full text.

Amendment 3 · Legislatively referred constitutional amendment (House Resolution 1243, 2025-2026 Regular Session; Ga. L. 2026, p. 1109)

Authorizes creation of Georgia Next Generation 9-1-1 Fund for 9-1-1 systems expansion, maintenance, and operation.

Lets the General Assembly create a Georgia Next Generation 9-1-1 Fund by general law and steer revenue from sources it names into it, to be spent only on expanding, maintaining and running 9-1-1 systems, including the move to Next Generation 9-1-1. Money in the fund would carry over from year to year instead of lapsing, and any appropriation from it for another purpose would be void.

Passes with: Majority of the votes cast on the question (Ga. Const. art. X, sec. I, para. II).

Official ballot summary (the state’s text)

Shall the Constitution of Georgia be amended so as to authorize the General Assembly to dedicate certain existing revenues, including revenues reallocated by law, to a nonlapsing fund to be used exclusively for the expansion, maintenance, and operation of emergency 9-1-1 systems in this state?

No primarily formed committees found in state records.

Sources: Georgia General Assembly, House Resolution 1243 (2025-2026 Regular Session), as passed House and Senate (LC 56 0547/AP); Full text.

What is not here yet

  • sos.ga.gov answers the workspace with HTTP 403. The Secretary of State's 2026 amendments booklet was read with WebFetch (three amendments, House Resolutions 32, 251 and 1243; no statewide referendum) but not saved; its official summaries, prepared by the Attorney General, the Secretary of State and Legislative Counsel, are not reproduced here. DeKalb County's saved booklet reprints them, but its three-column layout does not extract as clean text, so they were not transcribed.
  • Georgia publishes no official fiscal statement for constitutional amendments; the House Resolution 32 record lists a 'Local Government Fiscal Note' version on legis.ga.gov, which was not downloaded (not yet checked). fiscal_official is not set.
  • Committees: only the Commission's list of committees registered as 'Constitutional Amendment or Statewide Referendum' committees was saved (45 names, most from past elections). Each committee's registration page opens only through a form postback that the workspace could not reproduce, so registration dates and stated purposes were not read; committees with general names are not yet checked against the three amendments. Spending by groups not registered as ballot committees is not covered.
  • Court challenges: no lawsuit over any of the three amendments was found in web searches on Oct. 21, 2026; Georgia court dockets were not searched (not yet checked).
  • The Commission's site reset connections after repeated searches on Oct. 21, 2026; keyword searches ('911', '9-1-1', 'Probate', 'Farm', 'Amendment') were run but their result pages were not kept in raw/.

Gaps in the ballot records as of the date checked.