By Tom Ozimek Early voting in Georgia broke records this week despite last year’s adoption of election integrity measures that critics derided as “voter suppression” and President Joe Biden called a “blatant attack” on the Constitution and compared to a Jim Crow-era relic. More than 710,000 people had voted early in Georgia’s primary election as of May 19, according to the […]
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Georgia Among States Advancing Investigations Into Alleged Drop Box Ballot Trafficking: True the Vote Founder
By Masooma Haq and Roman Balmakov Catherine Engelbrecht, founder of True The Vote, said the goal of the organization is to present their findings to authorities and advance state-specific investigations into the alleged widespread ballot harvesting that they uncovered during their two-year-long inquiry. Most recently, Georgia has advanced an investigation into this issue. “There’s also […]
1,634 Non-Citizens Under Investigation for Attempting to Register to Vote in Georgia
By Steven Kovac Georgia’s Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger has referred 1,634 cases of non-citizens attempting to register to vote for investigation and potential prosecution. Attempting to register to vote while knowingly being ineligible is a violation of Georgia law. A citizenship audit conducted by Raffensperger over the past few weeks, which he claims was […]
Judge: 2020 Election Records in Key Georgia County Must Be Preserved Indefinitely
By Jack Phillips A Georgia judge ordered that Fulton County must preserve its 2020 election records indefinitely until further notice, handing a victory to a GOP gubernatorial candidate. “The court finds it appropriate to include an additional layer of security by ordering that the records and information … are maintained by the Clerk of Court indefinitely until […]
Georgia Secretary of State Calls for Release of ‘Secret Report’ on Dominion Voting Machines
By Zachary Stieber Georgia’s secretary of state has joined plaintiffs in lawsuit filed against him in calling for the release of a report that analyzes Dominion Voting Systems equipment. The report, completed by J. Alex Halderman, director of the University of Michigan Center for Computer Security and Society, was filed under seal in Curling v. Raffensperger, a federal […]
Georgia Begins Probe of Illegal 2020 Ballot Harvesting
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]