Atlanta civil rights leaders are ratcheting up the pressure on President Joe Biden to choose Atlanta as the site of the 2024 Democratic National Convention.
The state elections director warned members that a provision allowing the state to automatically remove voters who register in another state is illegal under federal law.
The investigation itself began over a year ago and stemmed from alleged efforts to overturn the state’s 2020 election results not long after they were finalized.
A north Georgia banker defeated the widow of late House Speaker David Ralston to win Ralston’s old House seat in a Republican runoff Tuesday, while a Republican former House member cruised to victory in a state Senate seat in south Georgia.
Less than 24 hours after one of the most competitive runoffs in Georgia’s history, Rep. Jasmine Clark said she plans to introduce legislation to extend future run-offs from four weeks to six weeks.
U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock appears to have won re-election in Georgia’s nationally watched runoff on Tuesday, and will now be serving his first full, six-year Senate term.
On Election Day, you make time to cast a ballot; during your lunch break, maybe on the way home from work, maybe after dropping off the kids. Voting is a privilege of living in a democracy; a privilege we might forget is a privilege, in the midst of our schedules and routines. One organization called Joy to the Polls is trying to shake things up.
Voting in Georgia on Tuesday appears to have gone fairly smoothly. The votes are now being counted and it's a very tight race between the two candidates.
In a race where a few hundred votes can make a difference, the majority of the 39,000 people held in Georgia County jails can vote but as Atlanta News First Investigates uncovered, few do.
The extended Senate campaign in Georgia gives Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock and Republican challenger Herschel Walker a second chance to persuade voters to send them to Washington. But without party control of Congress at stake and absent other candidates on the ticket, the runoff looks different from the November general election.
Raphael Warnock is the first Black U.S. senator from Georgia, having broken the color barrier for one of the original 13 states with a special election victory in January 2021, almost 245 years after the nation’s founding.
Mark Rountree with Landmark Communications is crunching numbers. Rountree is able to use voter modeling, which uses public records, to predict to what party a voter might align.
This is Obama’s second visit to Georgia in as many months. He campaigned for Democrat Stacey Abrams, as well as for Warnock, at a metro Atlanta rally on Oct. 28, in the latter days of Georgia’s 2022 midterms.
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