It’s a common misconception that people found guilty of a felony permanently lose their right to vote. Research estimates 450,000 Georgians with a past conviction are eligible, and organizers are spreading the word.
A Republican-led group is challenging Georgia's new requirement that poll workers count the total number of ballots by hand. Eternal Vigilance Action is asking a judge to overturn the rule, saying it's another example of the State Election Board overstepping its legal authority.
Arizona officials say the flaw could disqualify nearly 100,000 people from voting in non-federal races. At issue is proof of citizenship records required by the state to participate in such elections.
Georgia's Fulton County has hired a team of independent monitors to observe its operations for this year's general election. The monitoring of Fulton's elections was proposed during the discussion of a resolution of a State Election Board case against the county stemming from an election recount in 2020.
Georgia's secretary of state has come out against election rule changes pending before the State Election Board, specifically rejecting a proposal to count ballots by hand at polling places on election night. At a meeting in July, the board advanced a proposal that would require three separate poll workers to count ballots at voting precincts on election night.
Three independent and third-party candidates got one step closer to appearing on Georgia's presidential ballot on Tuesday. But legal challenges still loom. Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger says independents Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Cornel West and Claudia De la Cruz of the Party for Socialism and Liberation each collected more than the 7,500 signatures needed to qualify.
A group trying to energize conservative women visited Atlanta on Thursday as part of a national bus tour ahead of former President Donald Trump’s Atlanta rally set for Saturday.
Georgia election officials are encouraging people to use a state website to cancel voter registrations when someone moves out of state or dies. But Monday's rollout by Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger was marred by a glitch that allowed people to access a voter's date of birth, driver's license number and last four numbers of a Social Security number.
On the Monday, July 29 edition of Georgia Today: The secretary of state's office has a new website to help ensure accurate voter rolls, a group of Atlanta-based musicians face tragedy in Wyoming, and Vice President Kamala Harris will be in Georgia tomorrow.
Community groups in McIntosh County filed a petition in probate court Tuesday to force a county-wide vote on a controversial zoning change on Sapelo Island’s Hogg Hummock.
The age of technologically assisted mass voter challenges is well upon us, and these tools could have a major impact on the 2024 elections. Fans of the apps say they will help prevent cheating by removing invalid voters from the rolls, making it harder for bad actors to cast fake votes. Opponents say all they will do is insert chaos into the process.