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News Articles: voting access

 The line of people waiting to cast ballots stretched around Atlanta’s Joan P. Garner library at Ponce de Leon Avenue and down the block after lunch on 2022’s last day of early voting. John McCosh/Georgia Recorder

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  • Elections

Georgia’s young voters ready for Dec. 6 runoff after new election rules tripped up some in midterms

“Vote by mail is a critical option that should be available to every voter to cast their ballots especially since this runoff coincides with final exams, the end of the semester and holiday,” a young voter said.

November 15, 2022
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By:
  • Stanley Dunlap

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  • Elections

Record-setting midterms early voting even exceeding presidential early voting

After eclipsing the 2018 midterm elections turnout on the first day of early voting this week, on Day 2 Georgians surpassed the turnout of the 2020 presidential election's second day of early voting.

October 19, 2022
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By:
  • Dave Williams
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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By:
  • Rebecca Grapevine
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
Greater Georgia, a organization founded in 2021 by former U.S. Sen. Kelly Loeffler to promote conservive candidates, has targeted Hispanic voters with roundtable discussions and events like a July 28 voter registration drive at a Supermercado in DeKalb County.

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  • News

The variety of voter groups has grown in Georgia, reflecting an increasingly diverse electorate

Voting advocacy groups in Georgia are working to mobilize a disengaged and diverse group of voters for the upcoming midterm elections that will determine not just leadership of the state government but could also once again decide control in Congress.

September 15, 2022
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By:
  • Stanley Dunlap
Douglas City Commissioner Olivia Coley-Pearson (center) holds a voting rights demonstration in Coffee County, Ga.

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The fight against an age-old effort to block Americans from voting

A third of Olivia Coley-Pearson's neighbors in Coffee County struggle to read at a basic level, and she wants to make sure they have help navigating their ballots. It's an effort that runs counter to other efforts to block help at the voting booth for people who struggle to read — a group that amounts to about 48 million Americans, or more than a fifth of the adult population.

September 13, 2022
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By:
  • Aliyya Swaby and
  • Annie Waldman
drop boxes

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  • Politics

Political Rewind: 3 p.m. deadline to unseal Mar-a-Lago warrant; Election officials on SB 202 impact

Friday on Political Rewind: Attorney General Merrick Garland wants to unseal the warrant that led to an FBI search of Mar-a-Lago. Plus, a special panel of guests discusses voting in Georgia, including its history of discriminatory voting rules, Senate Bill 202, the experiences of election workers and more. 

August 12, 2022
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By:
  • Stephen Fowler ,
  • Natalie Mendenhall ,
  • and 1 more
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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  • Elections

Judge rules Georgia must end statewide PSC elections

A federal judge has ruled that Georgia's statewide election of its five public service commissioners illegally dilutes Black voting power. The judge on Friday ordered the state to not prepare ballots for two races that had been scheduled in November.

August 05, 2022
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By:
  • Associated Press and
  • GPB News Staff
The Cobb County board of elections voted to ask county commissioners for funding to mail absentee applications to active voters for November.

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  • Politics

Political Rewind: Republicans mobilize election volunteers, teachers go back to school

Friday on Political Rewind: After claiming the 2020 election was rigged, Republicans are mobilizing election volunteers and disputing individual voter registrations statewide. Plus, teachers are better-paid this school year, but they face new restrictions on teaching race and gender.

July 29, 2022
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By:
  • Bill Nigut ,
  • Natalie Mendenhall ,
  • and 1 more
Election Day in Atlanta

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Voter registration in Georgia possibly cut by website change

A change in a Georgia website may have resulted in a sharp drop in people registering to vote as they obtained driver's licenses. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution finds the share of Georgians registering or updating information through the Department of Driver Services fell from 79% in 2020 to 39% last year.

April 22, 2022
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  • Associated Press
Morgan County will no longer use two fire stations as polls after a February 8, 2022 elections board vote.

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  • Elections

Morgan County consolidates smaller, Republican-heavy polling places

The fire station voting sites used for two smaller, rural precincts had few Election Day voters and caused extra problems for elections officials.

February 08, 2022
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By:
  • Stephen Fowler
Lincolnton photo

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  • Politics

Voting rights activists temporarily delay poll closures in Lincoln County

The majority-white, majority Republican rural county planned to move from seven to one polling place because of scarce resources and a change in voter behavior. 

January 19, 2022
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By:
  • Stephen Fowler
Politicians hear from voters in Georgia

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  • Elections

Klobuchar: Senate Dems 'Very Close' To A Deal On Revised Voting Rights Bill

Klobuchar during a virtual panel Thursday with state lawmakers said that she met this week with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, (D-N.Y.), along with Manchin and Georgia Sen. Raphael Warnock, to discuss crafting a bill to protect and expand voting rights, as well as require states to use independent commissions for redistricting.

July 30, 2021
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By:
  • Ariana Figueroa
PSC voting

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  • Elections

Feds Side With Black Voters In Suit That Says Rights Violated By At-Large PSC Elections

The original lawsuit, filed last summer, claims the Georgia Public Service Commission’s statewide at-large districts dilute the voting strength of the state’s Black residents and that the state should move to regional districts represented by one commissioner.

July 29, 2021
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By:
  • Jill Nolin
Rep. Bee Nguyen

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  • Elections

Georgia's New Voting Law Takes The Stage Again As Rules Are Tightened

During a panel discussion, state lawmakers from Georgia, Arizona, Pennsylvania, Texas and Florida discussed how they’ve fought against restrictive elections measures introduced and passed in their legislatures.

July 21, 2021
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By:
  • Ariana Figueroa
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