Maya Homan covers politics, voting rights and immigration for the Georgia Recorder. Previously, she worked as a fellow for USA TODAY covering Georgia politics and the 2024 presidential election. She is a 2023 graduate of Northeastern University, and can usually be found knitting in a committee meeting.
Georgia’s ballot QR code crisis is resolved for now, but a late change to an elections bill passed during last month’s special session adds a new twist to the question of how future elections across the state will be run.
Georgia’s State Election Board unanimously passed a resolution Wednesday urging state lawmakers to hasten a switch to hand-marked paper ballots, just a day after legislators unveiled a proposal to delay overhauling Georgia’s election system until after the 2026 midterms.
Georgia’s State Election Board did not move to take control of Fulton County’s elections at a closely watched meeting this week, but at least one board member left the door open for future intervention.
A California-based Planned Parenthood chapter will help manage Planned Parenthood Southeast after months of turmoil that led to an internal investigation and the ouster of the embattled organization’s interim CEO late last year.
