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News Articles: voting law

People gather during a get out the vote rally Nov. 27, 2022, in Atlanta, during early voting for the Senate runoff election. Voters in Georgia appear to have navigated the strict election law passed last year by Republicans with little difficulty. But voting rights groups say it’s too soon to assess the full impact of the law, since it’s not certain how many voters may have been dissuaded from casting a ballot.

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Effect of Georgia's voting law unclear, despite high turnout

Georgia's 2022 election season ended dramatically this past week, but not because of any large-scale problems with voting. And that's prompting Georgia Republicans to say concerns over a 2021 law that imposed several new restrictions on voting were overblown.

December 12, 2022
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  • Associated Press
Georgia Democrat Bee Nguyen urges voters to choose her for secretary of state on Thursday, Oct. 27, 2022 in Milledgeville, Ga. Nguyen is trying to persuade voters to reject Republican incumbent Brad Raffensperger, arguing his support for Georgia's voting law and opposition to abortion outweighs his defiance of pressure from President Donald Trump to overturn Georgia's 2020 election results.

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  • Elections

Democrat tells Georgians that GOP's Raffensperger is no hero

Democrat Bee Nguyen, who is running to be Georgia's top elections official, says incumbent Republican Brad Raffensperger is no hero for standing up to Donald Trump.

November 02, 2022
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  • Associated Press
Rhonda Briggins, former co-chair of the Delta Sigma Theta National Social Action Commission and member of the sorority's Decatur alumnae chapter, poses for a photo at the state Capitol in Atlanta, Oct. 14, 2022, in Atlanta. Briggins spent the 2020 election at an Atlanta polling place handing out water and snacks to encourage voters to stay in an hours-long line to cast their ballot, something her historic Black sorority has done for decades in Georgia.

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  • Elections

Groups mobilize to help voters confronting new election laws

Voters in Georgia, Texas and some other states are facing new hurdles to cast a ballot during the midterm election under laws passed by Republican-led legislatures following President Donald Trump's false claims that voter fraud cost him re-election in 2020. The restrictions have prompted groups that assist voters to reorient themselves so they can avoid running afoul of new barriers.

October 17, 2022
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  • Associated Press
Voters stand in a line as they wait to vote early on Oct. 19, 2020, in Athens, Ga. Lawyers on Monday, July 18, 2022, asked a federal judge to block Georgia's 2021 ban on giving gifts including food and water to voters waiting in line.

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Judge declines to block ban on giving food, water to voters

A judge has declined to block a section of a Georgia election law that bans handing out food and water to voters waiting in line. The provision is part of a sweeping elections overhaul passed by Georgia lawmakers last year.

August 19, 2022
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  • Associated Press
Voters stand in a line as they wait to vote early on Oct. 19, 2020, in Athens, Ga. Lawyers on Monday, July 18, 2022, asked a federal judge to block Georgia's 2021 ban on giving gifts including food and water to voters waiting in line.

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Georgia's ban on water for voters challenged in court

Groups challenging Georgia's 2021 voting law are asking a federal judge to block a ban on giving water and food to voters standing in line. The state is defending the ban, saying that it prevents concerns about illegal campaigning or vote buying, while preserving order around polling places.

July 19, 2022
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  • Associated Press
Debbie Hamby, 66, casts a ballot at an early voting site in Acworth, Ga., on Friday, May 6, 2022. Hamby, a nurse from Kennesaw, Georgia, says she believes in-person voting is more secure and supports limits on mail ballots.

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  • Elections

In early primaries, voters favor polling places over mail

Tens of millions of people in the United States opted for mail ballots during the pandemic election of 2020. This year, voters in the early primary states are returning in droves to in-person voting. In Georgia, early in-person voting is shattering records.

May 16, 2022
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  • Associated Press
Georgia Senate President Pro Tem Butch Miller, R-Gainesville, sparks laughter, Tuesday, March 29, 2022, during a hearing on an election law bill at the Georgia Capitol in Atlanta. Miller asked a House member "What happened to your bill?" after the Senate Ethics Committee slashed it from 39 pages to two pages, removing all controversial proposals.

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Georgia senators scrap proposal for more election rules

Georgia senators are scrapping further big changes in state election law. The Senate Ethics Committee took the vote Tuesday after strong opposition from local election officials who said changes would create needless red tape.

March 30, 2022
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  • Associated Press
A person wears an “I’m a Georgia Voter” sticker after voting on Election Day in Atlanta on Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020.

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Some GOP states seek new police units for election probes

Republicans promoting claims of widespread voter fraud in at least two politically important states are turning to a new tactic to appease voters who falsely believe the 2020 presidential election was stolen. Efforts in Georgia and Florida would establish special law enforcement units dedicated to investigating possible voting or election crimes.

March 18, 2022
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  • Associated Press
Voters wait in line at the Macon-Bibb County Board of Elections during early voting in the 2020 Presidential Election.

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  • Politics

Battleground: Ballot Box | The election law heard 'round the country

A look inside this year's fallout from Georgia's voting law, SB 202.

November 03, 2021
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  • Stephen Fowler
Sec. of State Brad Raffensperger

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Raffensperger Fires Back At Federal Lawsuit Over Georgia Election Law Overhaul

Raffensperger announced Wednesday he has filed a Freedom of Information Act request (FOIA) with the federal agency to release any records of contacts it may have had with civil and voting rights organizations in light of the lawsuit.

September 01, 2021
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  • Dave Williams
Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger delivers a press conference Nov. 4, 2020.

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Raffensperger Announces 185,666 Voter Registrations Will Soon Move To Inactive Status

The Georgia Secretary of State's office will soon move more than 185,000 voter registrations to inactive status, beginning the process for eventual removal from the state's rolls under a federally mandated list maintenance process.

August 05, 2021
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  • Stephen Fowler
Sen. Amy Klobuchar speaks to Georgia lawmakers

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Senate Democrats Push Voting Rights Bill, Lambast Georgia Election Law

A U.S. Senate committee gathered in downtown Atlanta on Monday to hear how shortened runoff timeframes, tighter absentee ballot deadlines, and new state powers over local election officials are cause for Congress to expand voting protections through pending federal legislation. 

July 20, 2021
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  • Stanley Dunlap
U.S. Supreme Court

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Supreme Court Ruling On Arizona Law Could Hinder Georgia Court Challenges

The U.S Supreme Court’s ruling that upheld provisions in Arizona’s election law because they did not violate the Voting Rights Act could make it more difficult for federal lawsuits challenging Georgia’s voting law to succeed.

July 02, 2021
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  • Stanley Dunlap
People waiting on line to vote in College Park

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New Absentee Voting Rules Take Effect With Full 2021 Georgia Election Law

The federal government’s lawsuit against Georgia on Friday argues that the state’s new election rules that shorten the window to request absentee ballots, place restrictions on the number of drop boxes, and a host of other new provisions adversely affect Black voters.

July 01, 2021
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  • Stanley Dunlap
Truist Park

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Business Group Drops Lawsuit Over All-Star Game Pullout From Georgia

New York-based Job Creators Network, a group backed by The Home Depot co-founder Bernie Marcus, filed a federal lawsuit after MLB announced it was pulling next month’s game out of Georgia in protest of the General Assembly’s passage of an election law adding new restrictions critics attacked as voter suppression.

June 22, 2021
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  • Dave Williams
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