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Lawsuit charges State Election Board with meeting illegally

A nonprofit nonpartisan watchdog group filed a lawsuit Friday charging the State Election Board with violating Georgia’s Open Meetings Act after meeting last week without legally required public notice or a quorum.

July 19, 2024
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  • Dave Williams
Sen. Jon Ossoff

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U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff introduces legislation to protect election workers, polling places from threats

This week in Congress, Sen. Jon Ossoff introduced legislation that would prevent acts of violence and threats against election workers and at poll places after Georgia election workers Shaye Moss and her mother Ruby Freeman were threatened after the 2020 election.

March 15, 2024
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  • Ambria Burton

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How to vote in Georgia's 2024 presidential preference primary — plus key election dates to remember

Georgia's presidential preference primary is the first of several key voting dates for Georgia voters in 2024, and March 12 is the earliest that President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump could win enough delegates to clinch their party's nomination. 

March 11, 2024
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  • GPB News Staff
A voter enters the polling place at Woodbine City Hall during the March 8, 2022, referendum on the county land purchase for Spaceport Camden.

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Camden County looks to move voting precinct boundaries

Committee assigned to look at crowding, locations for next election.

August 01, 2023
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  • Caelen McQuilkin
People wait in line to vote in the Georgia's primary election on Tuesday, May 24, 2022, in Atlanta.

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Carter Center to monitor midterms in Fulton County

The Carter Center will provide nonpartisan observers to monitor midterm elections in Fulton County, Georgia. The Center, co-founded in 1982 by former President Jimmy Carter and Rosalynn Carter, announced Thursday it agreed to observe Fulton voting and vote-counting at the request of a bipartisan group of Georgia elections officials.

October 14, 2022
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  • Associated Press
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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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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  • Associated Press and
  • Orlando Montoya
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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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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  • Associated Press
Park Tavern precinct in Fulton County had long lines during the June 2020 election.

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Georgia Signs On Nearly 15,000 Poll Workers In Runup To November Election

So far, about 14,600 Georgians have signed up as poll workers this summer, seeming to put the state’s goal to recruit 20,000 new precinct staffers by November’s election within reach.

September 09, 2020
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  • Stanley Dunlap
Forsyth County voters will have four new precincts and five new polling places starting with the 2020 election cycle.

Forsyth County Adds Polling Places Ahead Of 2020 Election

Some voters in Forsyth County will have new places to vote starting with the 2020 election cycle. The Forsyth County Board of Voter Registrations and...

October 01, 2019
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  • Stephen Fowler

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