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News Articles: voting

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Early voting among women voters in Georgia encourages Democrats, even as some polls favor Trump

Women are outvoting men by more than 10 points in Georgia, according to the Georgia Secretary of State's voter turnout data hub.

October 30, 2024
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  • Sarah Kallis
A voter puts their ballot in a drop box in Norwalk, Calif., during early voting in Los Angeles County. People who vote in the 2024 general election can track their ballots as they move through the system.

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Worried about your 2024 ballot being counted? These states let you track it online

“There's no need to panic,” an elections expert tells NPR. All but three states have free tracking sites that send updates to voters as their ballot goes through the system.

October 30, 2024
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  • Bill Chappell
Former First Lady Michelle Obama at the When We All Vote Rally in College Park on October 29, 2024. Sarah Kallis/GPB News

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Michelle Obama urges young voters to polls at Georgia rally in last days of presidential campaign

Former first lady Michelle Obama and celebrities from music, film and television urged young Georgians to exercise their right to vote on Tuesday night.

October 30, 2024
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  • Stanley Dunlap

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Granny is going on 'The Walk' to the polls — and the whole town is invited

"Leaders are not born," Granny says. "They're made through molding and modeling." That's why she and her granddaughter and putting on their hats and coats and walking to the polls.

October 26, 2024
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  • Samantha Balaban
A voter fills out her ballot for the Michigan primary election in Grosse Pointe Farms, Mich., Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2024.

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Election officials are fighting a tsunami of voting conspiracy theories

With less than two weeks before Election Day, a resurgence of misinformation and conspiracy theories about voting is forcing state and local election officials to spend their time debunking rumors and explaining how elections are run.

October 24, 2024
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  • Associated Press
Signs to guide voters are posted outside a Cobb County polling station on the first day of early voting, in Marietta, Ga., Oct. 17, 2022.

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Georgia Supreme Court rejects Republican attempt to quickly reinstate invalidated election rules

The Georgia Supreme Court has rejected an attempt by national and state Republicans to immediately reinstate recently passed election rules that a judge had ruled were invalid. Fulton County Superior Court Judge Thomas Cox last week ruled that the State Election Board didn't have the authority to adopt the new rules.

October 22, 2024
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  • Associated Press
In this image from video, Sabrina Friday, the executive director of Mother's Nest in Macon, Ga., talks during an interview June 22, 2024.

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In Georgia, the winner in the presidential race may be determined by who doesn't vote

In Georgia, nonvoters are the most complicated piece of the electoral puzzle in a state that could decide the presidency. There are more than 47,000 people in Bibb County, Georgia, about 80 miles south of Atlanta, who are eligible to vote but don't.

October 22, 2024
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  • Associated Press
Bruce Marks, CEO of the Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America, speaks at a 2021 rally in Atlanta. The organization is requiring its 3.7 million members to vote.

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An organization has novel way to get members to vote. But is it legal?

The Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America, which helps members get affordable mortgages, says its 3.7 million members must vote or risk losing membership — and the financial benefits.

October 22, 2024
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  • Frank Langfitt

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What's behind Georgia's record-breaking early voting turnout

A record 1.4 million ballots have been cast in Georgia since early voting began last Tuesday. What do those numbers tell us?

October 21, 2024
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  • Peter Biello
Deanna Villanueva-Saucedo, associate vice chancellor at the Center for Excellence in Inclusive Democracy in the Maricopa Community College system, poses for a portrait on the South Mountain Community College campus in south Phoenix, Ariz., on Oct. 9, 2024.

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Barbed wire, high fences: some election spots in Arizona close, but others step up

Some election locations in Arizona are shutting their doors in the face of security threats — but others are expanding their footprint.

October 18, 2024
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  • Ximena Bustillo
People leave after voting in the Atlanta suburb of Sandy Springs, Ga., on Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2024, the first day of early in-person voting in Georgia.

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Republicans appeal a Georgia judge's ruling that invalidates seven election rules

The state and national Republican parties are appealing a judge's ruling that said seven election rules recently passed by Georgia's State Election Board are "illegal, unconstitutional and void." The Republicans want to overturn a ruling from Fulton County Superior Court Judge Thomas Cox, who on Wednesday ruled that the board did not have the authority to pass the rules.

October 18, 2024
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  • Associated Press
Patricia Powell helps Jaleen Green register to vote in Georgia's Terrell County on Oct. 5, 2024.

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Activists in rural Georgia seek more robust effort to get Black voters to the polls

Local leaders in south Georgia worry that Democrats aren't doing enough to mobilize Black voters in rural areas. Democrats saw unprecedented wins across the state in 2020, in part because of organizing efforts to turn out voters who usually stay home.

October 17, 2024
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  • Associated Press
Former President Jimmy Carter greets attendees as he departs the funeral service for his wife, former first lady Rosalynn Carter, at Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains, Ga., Nov. 29, 2023.

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Jimmy Carter, at age 100, casts his 2024 ballot by mail

Jimmy Carter has cast his ballot in the 2024 election. The Carter Center in Atlanta says the former president voted by mail Wednesday.

October 16, 2024
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  • Associated Press
A screenshot of the Georgia Secretary of State's data hub on Oct. 23, 2024

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UPDATES: Georgia's early voting turnout continues to break records

GPB reporters from around the state check in with updates about voter turnout, data and voter voices during the voting period beginning Oct. 15 and ending Nov. 1, 2024. 

October 15, 2024
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  • GPB Newsroom
Andy Brown takes a break on top of what remains of a tree that destroyed his SUV when it fell during Hurricane Helene on in Augusta, Ga., Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2024.

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A federal judge rejects a call to reopen voter registration in Georgia after Hurricane Helene

A federal judge won't order the state of Georgia to reopen voter registration for November's elections in the presidential battleground state. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Eleanor Ross came after a hearing Thursday.

October 11, 2024
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  • Associated Press
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