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News Articles: Election 2022

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Have questions about the 2022 elections? We’re here to answer

The 2022 midterm elections are on the horizon. Are you planning to vote?  Do you know how to vote, where to vote and what you might need to have when you show up to the polls? We're here to answer your questions.

August 08, 2022
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  • GPB News Staff and
  • America Amplified
Alie Utley and Joe Moyer react to their county voting against the proposed constitutional amendment during the Kansas for Constitutional Freedom primary election watch party in Overland Park, Kan., on Tuesday.

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  • Politics

How the 2022 midterms strategy could change after the Kansas abortion vote

Republican and Democratic strategists are recalibrating how much of an issue abortion rights will play in the midterm elections after a decisive vote by Kansans in favor of abortion rights.

August 06, 2022
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  • Barbara Sprunt
The first voters under Georgia's newly passed voting rules in the East Macon 3 precinct in Macon, Ga., cast their ballots on Tuesday.⁠

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  • Elections

Judge rules Georgia must end statewide PSC elections

A federal judge has ruled that Georgia's statewide election of its five public service commissioners illegally dilutes Black voting power. The judge on Friday ordered the state to not prepare ballots for two races that had been scheduled in November.

August 05, 2022
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By:
  • Associated Press and
  • GPB News Staff
Republican Senate challenger Herschel Walker speaks to media in the state Capitol.

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  • Politics

Herschel Walker agrees to a debate — sort of

The Republican Senate nominee has made conflicting claims for months — and still hasn't agreed to three debates with his opponent.

August 03, 2022
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  • Stephen Fowler
Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., joins Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., to speak to reporters after the Senate advanced a $280 billion bill designed to boost the U.S. semiconductor industry and to accelerate high tech research that backers say will be critical to the economy in future decades, at the Capitol in Washington, July 26, 2022. Warnock is running for his first full Senate term, pitching himself as a lawmaker willing to do whatever it takes to help his state.

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Sen. Warnock cites 'bipartisanship,' avoids Biden in Georgia

Georgia Democrat Raphael Warnock is running for his first full Senate term, pitching himself as a lawmaker willing to do whatever it takes to help his state. That's a shift from his approach in the state's nationally elevated twin runoff campaigns won by Warnock and fellow Democrat Jon Ossoff in January 2021.

August 01, 2022
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  • Associated Press
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  • Politics

Stacey Abrams plans for more affordable housing in Georgia

Democrat Stacey Abrams is promoting a plan she says will make housing more available and affordable across Georgia if she defeats Republican Gov. Brian Kemp this year.

July 27, 2022
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  • Associated Press
Georgia Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock raised $17.2 million for his Senate reelection bid in 2022′s second quarter, while Republican challenger Herschel Walker raised $6.2 million.

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  • Elections

Georgia's U.S. Senate candidates both face uphill battles as midterms approach

Low approval ratings and controversial statements are two of the challenges facing candidates in the U.S. Senate race in Georgia as the midterms approach.

July 27, 2022
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  • Leah Fleming
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  • Politics

Political Rewind: Fulton DA disqualified; Camden Spaceport Saga; Carter's no vote on gay marriage

Tuesday on Political Rewind: A judge ruled that Fani Willis cannot investigate state Sen. Burt Jones in the Fulton County special grand jury investigating the 2020 election. Plus, courts have upheld subpoenas for false electors and Rep. Jody Hice. Meanwhile, Rep. Buddy Carter voted against codifying gay marriage. 

July 26, 2022
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  • Natalie Mendenhall ,
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U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., speaks about Twitter, April 28, 2022, on Capitol Hill in Washington. On Monday July 25, 2022, a judge in Atlanta has rejected an appeal by a group of voters and affirmed the Georgia secretary of state’s decision that U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is eligible to run for reelection. The voters said she played a big role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol and was therefore ineligible for reelection.

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Judge upholds Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green's eligibility

A judge in Atlanta has rejected an appeal by a group of voters who sought to make Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene ineligible to run for reelection.

July 26, 2022
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  • Associated Press
State Sen. Burt Jones (R-Jackson) officially launched his campaign for lieutenant governor of Georgia on Thursday, Aug. 26, 2021.

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  • Politics

Judge disqualifies Fulton DA from investigating GOP lieutenant governor nominee in election probe

Another district attorney's office will pick up the investigation into state Sen. Burt Jones, who was a fake elector. 

July 25, 2022
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  • Stephen Fowler
Republican U.S. Senate nominee Herschel Walker talks with a voter at a livestock auction in Athens, Ga., Wednesday, July 20, 2022, as Walker campaigns to unseat Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock.

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  • Politics

Walker aims to pivot focus back to Dems in tight Ga. race

After a bruising opening to his general election campaign for the U.S. Senate, Georgia Republican Herschel Walker is trying to deflect attention back onto Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock.

July 25, 2022
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  • Associated Press
Stacey Abrams

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Georgia Democrats tee up fight over abortion access at ballot box

Abortion access is poised to take center stage in Democrats’ campaign to beat Republicans on the ballot in November after the state’s strict abortion law took effect.

July 21, 2022
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  • Riley Bunch
Herschel Walker

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  • Elections

Herschel Walker plays up farmer kinship, links Warnock to Biden at Athens livestock auction

Republican U.S. Senate nominee Herschel Walker played opening act for a herd of cows Wednesday during a campaign stop at Northeast Georgia Livestock LLC, a livestock auction house in Athens.

July 21, 2022
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  • Ross Williams
Kristy Card, right, protests with her daughter Sierra Worman in front of the Georgia State Capital in Atlanta on Friday, June 24, 2022, against the Supreme Court decision striking down Roe v. Wade.

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Federal appeals court rules Georgia abortion ban can immediately take effect

A federal judge ruled Wednesday that Georgia’s 2019 abortion law can immediately take effect after the Supreme Court abolished nearly half a century of abortion rights protections.

July 20, 2022
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  • Riley Bunch
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani speaks during a news conference June 7, 2022, in New York. The Georgia investigation into potential criminal interference in the 2020 election is heating up. Prosecutors are trying to force allies and advisers of former President Donald Trump to come to Atlanta to testify before a special grand jury.

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Giuliani ordered to testify in Georgia 2020 election probe

A judge in New York has ordered Rudy Giuliani to appear next month before a special grand jury in Atlanta that's looking into whether former President Donald Trump and others illegally tried to interfere in the 2020 election in Georgia.

July 20, 2022
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