Georgia, Election Day
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Key races to know about include the South Fulton mayor race, the Public Service Commission (PSC), and many more.
Officials with the Georgia Secretary of State's Office say that county election officials audited 328 batches of ballots. Of those, 99.7% had no deviation from the original vote totals. The single batch with a discrepancy was within the expected margin of ...
President Donald Trump never accepted his loss in Georgia during the 2020 election, a state he won in 2016 and still views today as a symbol for a national epidemic of election irregularities. Prior to former President Joe Biden‘s 2020 inauguration,
Republican Tim Echols was supposed to run for a six-year term in 2022. Instead, the District 2 winner will serve for five years, with the next election in 2030. His opponent is Democrat Alicia Johnson, who won her party's District 2 nomination unopposed.
Winfrey says the numbers mirror previous elections, and she anticipates 18 to 20% voter turnout for Tuesday's election. On Monday, Winfrey said that in addition to the 4,000 people who voted early, the city has received around 50,000 absentee ballots so far.
Key Georgia lawmakers Tuesday called for a rapid test-run of hand-marked paper ballots in this year’s elections, switching from touchscreens in some polling places. A switch would comply with part of a state law passed last year requiring the elimination ...