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News Articles: Election 2022

A report published late Monday alleges that GOP Senate candidate Herschel Walker, who has vehemently opposed abortion rights, paid for an abortion for his girlfriend in 2009. He called the accusation a "flat-out lie."

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Republican Party stands by Herschel Walker as he denies he paid for an abortion

The chair of the National Republican Senatorial Committee is standing behind the Georgia U.S. Senate candidate following a report alleging that Walker paid for his girlfriend's abortion in 2009.

October 04, 2022
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By:
  • Sam Gringlas
Herschel Walker talks to reporters during a campaign stop in Macon on May 18, 2022.

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  • Politics

Political Rewind: Report alleges Walker paid for woman's abortion. His adult son denounces campaign

Tuesday on Political Rewind: Herschel Walker's campaign is on the defensive. Walker's adult son Christian alleged that he threatened and abandoned his family for other women, amid a Daily Beast report that Walker paid for an abortion, in opposition to his anti-abortion stance.

October 04, 2022
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By:
  • Bill Nigut ,
  • Natalie Mendenhall ,
  • and 1 more
Former Georgia running back and Republican Georgia Senate candidate Herschel Walker attends a college football game between UAB and Georgia, Sept. 11, 2021, in Athens, Ga. Police in Irving, Texas once confiscated a gun from Walker following a domestic disturbance because the former football legend talked about having “a shoot-out with police.” The revelation was included in a 2001 police report that recently obtained by The Associated Press.

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  • Politics

Herschel Walker's Senate campaign rocked by report he paid for an abortion

The news appears to undercut Walker's hardline stance against abortion amidst a falsehood-laden campaign.

October 04, 2022
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By:
  • Stephen Fowler
A Republican election challenger at right watches over election inspectors as they examine a ballot as votes are counted into the early morning hours, Nov. 4, 2020, at the central counting board in Detroit. Election officials across the country are bracing for a wave of confrontations in November as emboldened Republican poll watchers, many embracing former President Donald Trump's conspiracy theories about the 2020 election, flood polling places for the general election.

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  • Elections

Election officials brace for confrontational poll watchers

Local election officials across the United States are bracing for a wave of confrontations on Election Day in November. Emboldened Republican poll watchers, including many who embrace former President Donald Trump's falsehoods about the 2020 election, are expected to flood election offices and polling places.

October 03, 2022
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By:
  • Associated Press and
  • Orlando Montoya
 Campaign headshots from three Georgia Libertarian hopefuls. From left, gubernatorial candidate Shane Hazel, secretary of state candidate Ted Metz and U.S. senate candidate Chase Oliver.

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  • Politics

Libertarians hope to make difference in tight election year

The major party candidates running for Georgia’s top elected positions have become household names, but when voters enter their polling places next month, they will encounter some names that have not been blaring from their TV speakers or plastered across their social media feeds. Libertarian candidates could mix up the race by forcing a runoff, and they are hoping their presence will shift the political conversation in Georgia.

October 03, 2022
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By:
  • Ross Williams
Political forum for disability community

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  • Politics

Georgians with disabilities quiz statewide candidates on labor issues, waiver access

The opportunity to engage with people with disabilities just weeks before early voting starts yielded mixed results from Georgia’s candidates for statewide office. Herschel Walker and Gov. Brian Kemp raise eyebrows for skirting questions.

October 01, 2022
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By:
  • Jill Nolin
After narrowly losing the governor's race in 2018, Democrat Stacey Abrams is running again in 2022 under a platform of "One Georgia."

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  • Politics

Stacey Abrams looks to win Black men in bid for Ga. governor

Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams is trying to solidify support and boost turnout by Black men in her governor's race against incumbent Republican Brian Kemp.

September 30, 2022
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  • Associated Press
A screenshot of a blank Georgia Absentee ballot application

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  • Politics

Third-party groups can help Georgians apply for absentee ballots, federal court rules

ATLANTA – A federal judge has dismissed a voting rights group’s lawsuit, confirming VoteAmerica’s online tool that helps people obtain absentee ballots is legal under the terms of Senate Bill 202, the voting reform law the General Assembly adopted last year.

September 29, 2022
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  • Rebecca Grapevine
 A video surveillance image taken on Jan. 19, 2021, shows former Coffee County Republican Party chair Cathy Latham, bottom right, welcoming forensic computer analysts with Atlanta-based SullivanStrickler to the county elections office. Screenshot from Coffee County video

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  • Politics

Georgia election officials, voting systems CEO vouch for machine’s security ahead of midterms

The president of the Dominion Voting Systems defended the integrity of the company’s voting equipment during Wednesday’s Georgia State Election Board meeting where state officials attempted to shore up public confidence ahead of the Nov. 8 general election.

September 29, 2022
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By:
  • Stanley Dunlap
 Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin held a get-out-the-vote rally for Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp in Alpharetta Tuesday. Youngkin has been campaigning for Republican candidates in battleground states like Georgia. Jill Nolin/Georgia Recorder

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  • Politics

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin holds get-out-the-vote rally for Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp in Alpharetta

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp hit the Atlanta suburbs Tuesday in hopes of firing up conservative voters in an area that has been moving toward Democrats in recent elections.

September 28, 2022
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By:
  • Jill Nolin
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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  • Politics

Horse races, margins of error and your vote: It's the science of political polling

Polls can be used to drum up support for campaigns and reveal how closely aligned (or far apart) the general public is on consequential elections. But can they be trusted to determine what voters will do?  And why do they vary so widely? 

September 27, 2022
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By:
  • Leah Fleming and
  • Stephen Fowler
Coffee County

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  • Politics

Political Rewind: Abortion key issue; Potential runoff for Senate; Coffee County election equipment

Monday on Political Rewind: A potential U.S. Senate runoff looms over voters for the second time in two years. Meanwhile, Democrats are running on abortion rights, even in deep red parts of Georgia. Plus: the latest on the Coffee County election office data breach.

September 26, 2022
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By:
  • Bill Nigut ,
  • Natalie Mendenhall ,
  • and 1 more
People visit a booth set up by Fulton County to recruit new poll workers at the Alpharetta Farmers Market on Sept. 10, 2022, in Alpharetta, Ga. Lies about the integrity of the 2020 presidential contest by former President Donald Trump and his allies are spurring new interest in working the polls in Georgia and elsewhere in the nation for the upcoming midterm elections.

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  • Elections

False claims, threats fuel poll worker sign-ups for midterms

False claims about the 2020 presidential election by former President Donald Trump and his allies are spurring new interest in working the polls in Georgia and elsewhere for the upcoming midterm elections, but for different reasons.

September 26, 2022
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By:
  • Associated Press
This Jan. 7, 2021, image taken from Coffee County, Ga., security video, appears to show Cathy Latham (center, long turquoise top), introducing members of a computer forensic team to local election officials. Latham was the county Republican Party chair at the time. The computer forensics team was at the county elections office in Douglas, Ga., to make copies of voting equipment in an effort that documents show was arranged by Sidney Powell and others allied with then-President Donald Trump.

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  • Elections

Voting equipment to be replaced after 'unauthorized access'

Georgia's secretary of state has announced plans to replace election equipment in one county after what he called unauthorized access to the equipment just two months after the 2020 election.

September 23, 2022
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By:
  • Associated Press
Children walk home from Camp Creek Elementary School in Lilburn, Ga., after school on Monday, Sept. 12, 2022. Polls show K-12 education trailing among voter concerns in Georgia this year as candidates talk more about inflation, the economy, abortion and guns.

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  • Politics

Education takes an unusual back seat in Georgia election

Both Republican incumbent Brian Kemp and Democratic challenger Stacey Abrams are touting education proposals in Georgia's race for governor. But polls show K-12 education trailing among voter concerns in Georgia this year.

September 23, 2022
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  • Associated Press
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