By Matthew Vadum State officials in Georgia are now investigating allegations that ballot harvesting–a practice that is unlawful in the state—was used widely during the November 2020 general election and the U.S. Senate runoff elections that followed two months later. The allegations originated from good-government group True the Vote, which promises to release other information on voting irregularities […]
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Georgia Governor Unveils Push for Expanded Gun-Carry Rights
By Zachary Stieber Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp said on Jan. 5 that he would push for a state law to loosen requirements for state residents to carry a handgun in public. Kemp, a Republican, announced the effort at a gun store near Atlanta alongside state lawmakers and gun owners. “In the face of rising violent crime across […]
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Georgia Tries to Be Less Taxing
By Gregory Bresiger Georgia, with its strong economic recovery from the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus pandemic, may become the 10th state without a state an income tax. A former national leader residing in Georgia says the state income tax must go. “The time has come to abolish the Georgia state income tax,” writes Newt Gingrich, a former U.S. […]
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Georgia Official Urges DOJ to Investigate Fulton Voter After Two Fired for Allegedly Shredding Voting Applications
By Zachary Stieber Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger on Monday called on the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate Fulton County after the county fired two workers for allegedly shredding municipal election-related voter applications. “After 20 years of documented failure in Fulton County elections, Georgians are tired of waiting to see what the next embarrassing revelation will […]
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Undeliverable Ballots in Georgia Were Double Biden’s Official Margin of Victory, Report Says
By Matthew Vadum Although President Joe Biden may have been declared the official winner of Georgia’s electoral votes in the 2020 election by close to 12,000 votes, more than twice that number of mail-in ballots were returned as undeliverable by the post office, according to a research brief by a good-government group. The new report from the Indianapolis-based Public Interest […]
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Georgia Election Board Votes to Open Bipartisan Probe in Fulton County
By Ivan Pentchoukov The Georgia State Election Board has voted to appoint a bipartisan panel to review the management of elections in Fulton County, an inquiry that could lead to the replacement of the county’s election board by a state board-appointed interim superintendent. The inquiry is the first of its kind under the election law Georgia Republicans passed in […]
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Most Georgia Voters Did Not Sufficiently Check Their Paper Ballots in 2020 Election: Study
By Zachary Stieber A majority of voters in Georgia either did not check or only briefly glanced at paper ballots after they chose who to vote for during the 2020 election, according to a recently released study. A fifth of voters observed at the voting booth did not check the ballots at all, while 31.3 percent of others […]
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Wisconsin Lawmaker Calls for ‘Full Forensic Audit’ After Georgia, Arizona Updates
By Zachary Stieber A Wisconsin representative on Friday said 2020 election reviews being done in the state should be expanded into a “full forensic audit” following alleged irregularities being revealed in Arizona and Georgia. State Rep. Timothy Ramthun, a Republican, formally requested “a more comprehensive audit” from former state Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman, who is leading a conducting a […]
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Federal Judge Rejects Challenge to Georgia Voting Law
By Jack Phillips A federal judge in Georgia declined to block portions of the recently passed Georgia election law after an organization filed a legal challenge that sought to invalidate parts of the mandate. The Coalition for Good Governance, a left-leaning group that describes itself as an election security group, opposed the Election Integrity Act of 2021’s provision that voters request […]
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Department of Justice Sues Georgia Over Election Integrity Act
By Jack Phillips The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Friday filed a lawsuit against Georgia over the state’s recently passed Election Integrity Act, announced Attorney General Merrick Garland, who alleged the law is a violation of the federal Voting Rights Act’s protections for minority voters. “Where we see violations of federal law, we will act,” Garland […]
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Georgia Conducting Secret 2020 Ballot Review—Keeping Plaintiffs in the Dark
By Paul Sperry, Real Clear Investigations After several Fulton County, Ga., poll monitors testified last year that boxes of mail-in ballots for Joe Biden looked liked they’d been run through a photocopy machine, state investigators quietly broke the seal on one suspicious box and inspected the hundreds of votes it contained for signs of fraud, RealClearInvestigations has learned […]
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Election Workers Set to Be Deposed in Georgia Ballot Case
By Zachary Stieber Several election workers in Fulton County, Georgia are scheduled to be deposed in the coming days in a lawsuit that alleges thousands of fraudulent ballots were scanned in Atlanta on Election Night in 2020. Ruby Freeman, her daughter Wandrea Moss, Caryn Ficklin, and Keisha Dixon were served with notices to appear for depositions in the case, […]
