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Federal appeals court to decide the fate of Georgia voting rights lawsuit

The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals is deciding whether to uphold a lower court ruling that found a conservative voting organization did not violate the voting rights act when it challenged over 360,000 Georgia voter registrations in 2021. 

May 13, 2025
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By:
  • Sarah Kallis
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit said Monday it will hold off ruling on Georgia’s anti-abortion litigation until the nation’s highest court settles a case that could have implications for Georgia’s 2019 law.

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  • Politics

Court fight over 2021 Georgia mass voter eligibility challenges heads to federal court

A federal appellate court is set to hear a case Tuesday centered on a five-year debate over whether the national right-leaning group True the Vote used mass voter challenges to intimidate minority voters.

May 13, 2025
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By:
  • Stanley Dunlap and
  • Georgia Recorder
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis looks on during a hearing on the Georgia election interference case, March, 1, 2024, in Atlanta. A Georgia appeals court has agreed to review a lower court ruling allowing Fani Willis to continue to prosecute the election interference case she brought against Donald Trump.

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  • Politics

After Trump’s election, future murky for Fulton RICO case against president and Georgia allies

The Georgia Court of Appeals’ scheduled Dec. 5 hearing on the latest development in the Fulton County racketeering indictments of President-elect Donald Trump and his allies remains on track despite the results of last week’s presidential election. But questions still linger about the case against Trump and his remaining 14 co-defendants.

November 13, 2024
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By:
  • Stanley Dunlap
 The Georgia Election Board’s three Republican members voted 3-2 Wednesday to reinvestigate Fulton County over election rules infractions related to the 2020 presidential election. Board Chairman John Fervier, left, on Wednesday warned conservative board members Janice Johnston, middle, and Rick Jeffares, that reopening case could violate state law. Stanley Dunlap/Georgia Recorder

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  • Politics

Georgia election board’s right-wing faction revisits Fulton’s 2020 presidential election

A trio of conservative members of the Georgia State Election Board agreed Wednesday to further investigate Fulton County’s 2020 presidential election law violations despite warnings from fellow board members that their decision was illegal.

August 08, 2024
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By:
  • Stanley Dunlap
Former President Donald Trump, with his attorney Todd Blanche, speaks to reporters following the day's proceedings in his trial, Tuesday, May 7, 2024, in New York.

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Georgia appeals court agrees to review ruling allowing Fani Willis to stay on Trump election case

An attorney for Donald Trump says the former president looks forward to presenting arguments to a Georgia appeals court that will review a ruling letting Fani Willis keep prosecuting the election interference case against him. The Republican ex-president and some other defendants had tried to get the Fulton County district attorney removed from the case, saying her romantic relationship with special prosecutor Nathan Wade created a conflict of interest.

May 08, 2024
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By:
  • Associated Press
 Georgia Election Board member Janice Johnston, far right, on May 7 said it’s a “travesty” that the board did not further investigate a complaint about the recount and preservation of several thousand ballots cast in Fulton County’s 2020 presidential election. Stanley Dunlap/Georgia Recorder

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  • Politics

Georgia oversight panel ruminates on 2020 election hiccups as 2024 showdowns loom

The Georgia Election Board voted Tuesday to reprimand Fulton County and appoint an independent monitor for the 2024 election for violating state law while conducting a recount of the 2020 presidential election.

May 08, 2024
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By:
  • Stanley Dunlap
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally on Oct. 27, 2016 at the Spire Institute in Geneva, Ohio.

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  • Elections

Ohio has been a bellwether and a battleground: What is it telling us now?

Ohio was the model bellwether state until 2020. In that year, Ohio gave a solid majority of its vote to then-incumbent President Donald Trump, but he still lost the White House to Joe Biden.

March 23, 2024
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By:
  • Ron Elving
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis testifies during a hearing on the Georgia election interference case, Thursday, Feb. 15, 2024, in Atlanta. The hearing is to determine whether Willis should be removed from the case because of a relationship with Nathan Wade, special prosecutor she hired in the election interference case against former President Donald Trump.

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Judge clears way for Trump to appeal ruling keeping Fani Willis on Georgia 2020 election case

The judge overseeing the Georgia election interference case is allowing Donald Trump to appeal a ruling allowing Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to remain on the prosecution.

March 20, 2024
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By:
  • Associated Press
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis arrives during a hearing on the Georgia election interference case, Friday, March, 1, 2024, in Atlanta. The hearing is to determine whether Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis should be removed from the case because of a relationship with Nathan Wade, special prosecutor she hired in the election interference case against former President Donald Trump. (AP Photo/Alex Slitz, Pool)

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Trump seeks to appeal decision not to disqualify district attorney from Georgia election case

Former President Donald Trump and other defendants in Georgia's election interference case are seeking to appeal a judge's ruling not to disqualify Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from their prosecution.

March 18, 2024
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By:
  • Associated Press
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis poses for a portrait, Wednesday, April 19, 2023, in Atlanta.

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Judge orders unsealing of divorce case involving Georgia special prosecutor accused of affair

A judge has ordered court records to be made public in the divorce involving a special prosecutor hired in the election case against Donald Trump and others and accused of having an affair with Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis.

January 22, 2024
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By:
  • Associated Press
Coffee County has seen new elections equipment, new staff and even new office space since Trump allies organized a plot to illegally copy voting data.

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  • Politics

In Coffee County, a push to move on from a 2020 election scandal

A scheme that copied election data from Coffee County in 2020 is central to indictments in Atlanta, but not on the minds of many locals.

October 23, 2023
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By:
  • Stephen Fowler
Attorney Kenneth Chesebro pleaded guilty to one felony count for his role in creating a plan to send fake presidential elector documents from Georgia to Congress after the 2020 election.

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  • News

No Georgia election RICO trial for now as Kenneth Chesebro takes plea deal

Chesebro, who authored memos outlining a plan to send fake GOP presidential elector slates to Congress, pleaded guilty Friday.

October 20, 2023
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By:
  • Stephen Fowler
David Shafer, chairman of the Georgia Republican Party, arrives before Vice President Mike Pence speaks during a "Save the Majority" rally, Thursday, Dec. 10, 2020 in Augusta, Ga. A judge says Shafer can't share lawyers with 10 other fake electors in matters related to a special grand jury probing possible illegal meddling in the 2020 election.

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  • Politics

Lawyers say alternate Georgia GOP electors 'did their duty' in casting phony votes

Attorneys for the three Republicans facing charges say they were following federal law when falsely claiming to be official electors.

September 20, 2023
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By:
  • Stephen Fowler
Donald Trump is shown in a mugshot photo.

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  • Politics

Battleground: Ballot Box | Trump’s arresting hold on the GOP

On this special episode, we look at Donald Trump’s Georgia arrest — and his arresting hold over the GOP presidential primary.

August 29, 2023
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By:
  • Stephen Fowler
Voters wait in line at Park Tavern in Atlanta.

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  • Politics

Battleground: Ballot Box | How Georgia's recent elections planted seeds for future conspiracies

On this episode, we’ll turn back the clock to understand how we got here and why Georgia’s election system became ground zero for election conspiracies.

August 07, 2023
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By:
  • Stephen Fowler
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