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A Georgia trial arguing redistricting harmed Black voters could decide control of a US House seat

Democrats could gain a seat in the U.S. House and multiple seats in Georgia's Legislature if a judge rules Republicans drew maps illegally weakening Black voters' power.

September 05, 2023
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  • Associated Press
 Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger speaks to attendees at a Savannah Rotary Club luncheon, in Savannah, Ga., Monday, August 7, 2023

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2024 elections: ‘Hold on tight,’ Raffensperger says

Georgia’s secretary of state campaigns in Savannah for the state’s besieged voting system

 

August 08, 2023
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  • Craig Nelson
 At a Georgia State Election Board meeting on Aug. 1, more than 100 people gathered inside the state Capitol to pressure election officials to switch to paper ballots before the 2024 election. Stanley Dunlap/Georgia Recorder

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Renewed call for paper ballots in Georgia flares up at crowded State Election Board meeting

Several election integrity groups are ratcheting up the pressure on Georgia election officials to ditch the electronic voting machines the state purchased in 2019 in favor of paper ballots in time for the 2024 presidential election.

August 02, 2023
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  • Stanley Dunlap
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
Sen. Raphael Warnock

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'Local elections are at risk': Warnock reintroduces legislation to stop election interference

The bill would enforce new measures protecting local state election administrations from partisan interference.

July 27, 2023
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  • Ambria Burton
House Minority Leader James Beverly criticizes the GOP-drawn redistricting map while Rep. Bonnie Rich listens during a special session in 2021.

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Court challenges to Georgia’s political maps set for federal court trial

A trio of redistricting challenges in Georgia are set to advance to a trial this fall in the wake of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that Alabama’s 2022 congressional maps violated the Voting Rights Act.

July 19, 2023
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  • Jill Nolin
 The study by political scientists from Stanford and Tufts universities appears just as a heated debate is flaring again in Congress over the partisan and racial impact of recent voting laws.

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Changes in state election laws have little impact on results, new study finds

Meaning of Georgia’s higher turnout is debated.

 

July 18, 2023
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  • Zachary Roth
<strong>Left to right:</strong> Larry McCallum, <strong></strong>Reagan Bunch, AJ Jacobs, Trinity Locklear, Kayla Tran, Bryson Hyman

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Rural voters lean red, young voters lean blue. So what's a young, rural voter to do?

Democrats are aiming to make gains in North Carolina in 2024. And that path to victory in the state runs through its small towns and youngest voters. Here's where some of them stand.

July 16, 2023
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  • Elena Moore and
  • Ximena Bustillo
photo courtesy of Moriah via flikr

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Despite concerns, Georgia election officials plan to delay voting fixes till after ‘24 election

A long-running dispute over Georgia’s voting system has further fueled claims that state election officials haven’t done enough to ensure election security ahead of the 2024 presidential election.

June 23, 2023
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  • Stanley Dunlap
A graph showing voter registration numbers in Georgia

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New study shows the impacts of Automatic Voter Registration in Georgia

Georgia’s voter registration numbers have climbed since automatic voter registration was implemented in 2016. The program allows for voters to register while getting their driver’s license.

June 08, 2023
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  • Sarah Kallis
People wait in line to early vote for the U.S. Senate runoff election in Georgia between Sen. Raphael Warnock and challenger Herschel Walker, on Nov. 28, 2022, in Kennesaw, Ga., near Atlanta. After years of criticizing mail voting and trying to ban so-called "ballot harvesting," Republicans are reversing course. They are poised to launch aggressive get-out-the-vote campaigns for 2024 that employ just those strategies.

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GOP set to encourage early voting, mail balloting after years of opposite messaging to its voters

After years of criticizing mail voting and so-called ballot harvesting as ripe for fraud, Republicans at the top of the party want to change course. They're poised to launch aggressive get-out-the-vote campaigns for 2024 that employ just those strategies.

June 08, 2023
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  • Associated Press
A voter marks her ballot during the first day of early voting in Atlanta on Oct. 17, 2022. Elected leaders in Georgia's most populous county — a Democratic stronghold — on Wednesday, June 7, 2023, rejected a Republican nominee for the county elections board who had challenged the eligibility of thousands of voters.

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County leaders in Georgia reject election board nominee who challenged voters' eligibility

Elected leaders in Georgia's most populous county have rejected a Republican nominee for the elections board who had challenged the eligibility of thousands of voters. The Fulton County Board of Commissioners on Wednesday voted 3-2 to reject Jason Frazier, one of two nominees put forth by the county Republican Party for a seat on the county Board of Registration and Elections.

June 07, 2023
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  • Associated Press
Demonstrators Gwendolyn Perrette, left, of Tuscaloosa, Ala., and Miriam Billanuava, of Birmingham, Ala., chant with others outside the Capitol in Montgomery, Ala., March 8, 2013.

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Supreme Court opened the door to states' voting restrictions. Now a new ruling could widen them.

A U.S. Supreme Court decision a decade ago that tossed out the heart of the Voting Rights Act continues to reverberate across the country. Republican-led states continue to pass voting restrictions that, in several cases, would have been subject to federal review had the court left the provision intact.

June 06, 2023
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  • Associated Press
Voting rights groups target line relief ban in Georgia election law changes

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Voting rights groups target line relief ban in Georgia election law changes

Voting rights groups are going to federal court to block part of a law the General Assembly passed two years ago prohibiting volunteers from providing food and water to voters waiting in long lines at the polls.

April 25, 2023
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  • Dave Williams

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Political Rewind: The Legislature picks up steam; Judge rules on mass voter challenges; Trump's base

Friday on Political Rewind: The Legislature is picking up steam. Bills that would block a federal website for insurance in favor of a state site, authorize sports betting, and approve a statue of Clarence Thomas are in the air. Meanwhile, a federal judge rules on the mass challenge of Georgia voters.

February 03, 2023
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