With many more people voting by mail this fall, election officials feared that millions of ballots would be rejected in the general election. Instead, rejection rates went down across the country.
On election night, it was the votes of Albany and the surrounding Black Belt, in which President-elect Joe Biden took nearly 70 percent of the vote, that contributed to Biden’s narrow win over President Donald Trump in Georgia’s final vote tally. And it may do so again in the state's U.S. Senate runoff election Jan. 5.
President Trump is continuing to spread lies and misinformation about the 2020 general election, including a false claim that Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger is related to Ron Raffensperger, CTO of Chinese technology firm Huawei. While Raffensperger does have siblings, including a brother, none of them are named Ron.
The four candidates in Georgia’s U.S. Senate runoff races have reeled in huge donations ahead of the Jan. 5 election, raising more than $340 million between them since mid-October.
The two Democratic contenders, Jon Ossoff and Rev. Raphael Warnock, combined for the larger haul of roughly $210 million, while incumbent Republican Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler together amassed $132 million.
On this episode of the Battleground: Ballot Box podcast, we take a step back from all the voting chaos — sort of — and talk with someone who represents the future generation of voting and political participation.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution political columnist Jim Galloway has been on the frontlines of Georgia’s most consequential political stories. He retires in January. On Georgia Today, Galloway reflects on 40 years of covering Georgia politics, and his worries about the future of the Republican Party.
The Trump administration has made sweeping cuts to environmental regulations — and now the incoming Biden administration is expected to reverse them. But those changes won’t happen overnight. GPB’s Emily Jones reports on the Georgia issues waiting in limbo while the wheels of federal government turn.
Two television networks that have aired segments accusing rival voting machine vendors of enabling voter fraud in the presidential election are now walking back those claims after the threat of litigation.
A parade of election-related defeats for Republicans continues in Georgia, as the Cobb County elections board declined to move forward with a challenge to thousands of voter registrations on Friday.
A federal judge in Brunswick has denied a request seeking to stop some newly registered voters from casting a ballot in the Jan. 5 runoff, ruling that the plaintiffs lacked standing to proceed with the "extraordinary relief" sought.
Two different federal judges dismissed lawsuits Thursday filed by Republicans seeking to crack down on absentee voting procedures in Georgia for the Jan. 5 runoffs that will decide control of the U.S. Senate.
Georgia’s two U.S. Senate races are too close to call heading into the final three weeks before the Jan. 5 runoffs, according to a new poll from Insider Advantage and Atlanta’s Fox 5.
The poll of 500 likely Georgia voters, conducted Monday by telephone, found Republican U.S. Sen. David Perdue holding a slight lead over Democratic challenger Jon Ossoff, 49.0% to 47.8%.
Georgia Power’s overdue and over-budget Plant Vogtle nuclear plant expansion served as a handy punching bag for the challenger in a Tuesday debate as he took on a veteran of utility regulation ahead of the state’s Jan. 5 runoff election.
Georgia’s twin U.S. Senate contests are consuming most of the country’s political attention now that the presidential contest is finally decided in favor of President-elect Joe Biden.
Tuesday on Political Rewind: The Electoral College officially cast their votes for President-elect Joe Biden on Monday. It’s the first time in nearly three decades a Democratic candidate has won Georgia’s support in the presidential contest.
Monday also marked the first day of in-person early voting for the Jan. 5 runoffs. With the nation's eyes on Georgia, how do the state's broad and diverse coalitions factor into this election, which will determine control of the U.S. Senate?
The Georgia Secretary of State's office said they will audit a random sample of absentee ballot envelopes in Cobb County from the November general election and the June 9 primary as part of an investigation that local officials mishandled the process.
