A House vote of 96-70 along party lines sent the Senate legislative redistricting map to the governor’s desk — joining the House map approved last week. 

The first map of the 2021 redistricting Special Session is headed for the governor’s desk for a signature. The Senate passed the House legislative map 32-21 with one Republican voting with Democrats against it.

A Senate committee voted 4-3 to send a bill to expand the Gwinnett County Commission from five members to nine and make the chairperson a non-voting member. 

Shifting boundaries in metro Atlanta draw the bulk of complaints, a GPB News/Georgia News Lab analysis finds.

The Republican-controlled state House and Senate approved new boundaries for their members this week, setting up likely legal challenges even as the plans add more Democratic seats.

On this week's episode of Battleground: Ballot Box, we look at the good, bad and gerrymandering of redistricting in Georgia.

The state Senate passed its version of Georgia's redistricting map.

Tuesday on Political Rewind: We remembered the life and political career of Georgian and former Sen. Max Cleland. In redistricting news, Republican legislative leaders are facing pushback from some GOP voters who say they’re being denied the right to elect candidates of their own choice as proposed redistricting maps surface.

The House unveiled a new legislative map shortly before a 1 p.m. meeting of the chamber’s redistricting committee, leaving some activists and residents who had planned to attend scrambling to figure out what the changes meant.

The House Legislative and Congressional Reapportionment Committee drew angry comments from residents upset over the proposed Republican map.

Monday on Political Rewind: Gov. Brian Kemp and Attorney General Chris Carr have expanded their legal battle against the Biden administration’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate. They filed a new lawsuit even as Georgia passed 25,000 deaths from COVID-19.

Meanwhile, the state senate is moving quickly to pass new Georgia voting districts. Democrats say GOP legislators aren’t giving them or the public the time needed to weigh in on the new maps.

A Senate committee ended the first few days of the General Assembly special session by voting for a Republican legislative map, leading Democrats to blast the committee for not allowing time for public input.

For the first time, the public got a district-by-district explanation of the proposed maps for Georgia's 56 Senate districts along with assurances of a fair and legal process on Day 2 of the Georgia General Assembly special session. 

Thursday on Political Rewind: The jury selection tasked with deciding the fate of Travis and Gregory McMichael and William "Roddie" Bryan was announced Wednesday. Prosecutors protested the final jury selection, arguing the makeup does not match the demographics of Glynn County.

On Tuesday night, the Atlanta Braves win offered Georgia lawmakers a spirit of bipartisan unity on this first day of the special session of the Georgia General Assembly. The harmony over a sports victory is not likely to last.