GOP-dominated panel launches overhaul of Georgia’s voting system
A Republican-dominated panel met for the first time Friday in Georgia to lay out the next steps in a monthslong process to propose a new voting system for the state.
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Georgia Secretary of State’s office responds to Trump DOJ threats, defends voting policies
A top lawyer for Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) defended the state’s election procedures in a message to the Justice Department, after it threatened to target election officials with criminal prosecutions over possible noncitizen voting.
Trump’s Thursday primetime elections speech was going to be more dangerous
President Trump’s address to the nation on elections was previously on course to sound a lot more dangerous than it ended up being.
Trump-appointed judge rejects DOJ’s demands for personal info of 2020 Georgia election workers
A federal judge blocked the Justice Department’s demands for the identities and personal information of thousands of people who helped run the 2020 election in Georgia’s Fulton County, calling the request “unreasonable.”
Greg Dolezal, GOP nominee for Georgia Lt. Gov., said he submitted fake mail ballot applications to test system
Greg Dolezal, GOP nominee for Georgia Lt. Gov., said he and “a number of friends” deliberately submitted mail-in ballot applications with intentionally altered signatures — including forms signed by children — and then used the fact that they received ballots to argue that Georgia’s system facilitates fraud.
This week at Democracy Docket: Trump’s attack on mail voting advances, while Georgia Republicans retreat
The legal battle over President Donald Trump’s effort to crack down on mail voting is heating up. And Democracy Docket is covering it more closely than any other news outlet.
Georgia GOP votes to keep QR code ballots, but adds extra hand recounts
Under the new bill, the Secretary of State is expressly excluded from playing a role in determining Georgia’s future elections infrastructure.
Republicans sue Georgia’s largest counties in bid to restrict mail ballot return access
Republicans sued two of Georgia’s largest counties over local policies that help voters return absentee ballots, escalating the party’s campaign to restrict voting access in the battleground state ahead of the midterm elections.
Georgia Republicans backtracked on gerrymandering because they feared a showdown over Black voting rights
Georgia Republicans’ rushed attempt to redraw the state’s political maps collapsed Wednesday before lawmakers could even begin, handing voting rights advocates an important win and exposing the political risk of the GOP’s post-Callais push to dilute Black voting power.
Georgia Republican lawmakers unexpectedly kill GOP redistricting push
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp got a tough lesson Wednesday just hours before the state legislature was supposed to convene for a redistricting special session he called: Life comes at you fast.
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