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25 Jun 2024, 2:18 pm by Rick Hasen
AJC: Some of Georgia’s most prominent bipartisan leaders are uniting behind an effort to bolster confidence in the state’s election system after years of damage from false claims and discredited conspiracy theories about widespread voting fraud in 2020. [read post]
14 Apr 2020, 8:28 pm by Howard Bashman
Supreme Court to reject a judge’s recommendation that the state’s 7-year-old water rights case against Georgia be dismissed. [read post]
20 May 2023, 4:22 am by Derek Muller
Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Voting equipment across Georgia will undergo security “health checks” ahead of the 2024 presidential election, including efforts to verify that software hasn’t been altered, according to a plan announced Friday by Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger. [read post]
11 Feb 2024, 7:14 am by Rick Hasen
Pritchard, testified Friday that he never voted illegally while serving a felony sentence for forging checks, but state attorneys showed evidence that he… Continue reading The post “Georgia Republican Party official denies voting fraud charges in court” appeared first on Election Law Blog. [read post]
16 Feb 2023, 7:54 am by Rick Hasen
AJC: With his chances of winning Georgia slipping away in December 2020, then-President Donald Trump hit upon a novel scheme to stay in power: State legislators would name him the winner. [read post]
16 Jul 2023, 4:24 am by Dan Tokaji
WSJ: Former President Donald Trump has asked Georgia’s highest court to effectively shut down the criminal investigation into efforts to overturn his November 2020 election defeat in the state, saying his rights were violated by the district attorney handling… Continue reading The post “Trump Asks Georgia’s Highest Court to Block Election-Interference Investigation” appeared first on Election Law Blog. [read post]
19 Aug 2023, 11:11 am by Rick Hasen
WSJ: Donald Trump’s indictment has reignited infighting among Georgia Republicans, stoking fears within the party that the division may tip the state to Joe Biden in 2024. [read post]
13 Jul 2023, 4:34 am by Dan Tokaji
Atlanta Journal-Constitution: “The Georgia State Election Board is suing True the Vote over the organization’s failure to comply with subpoenas that would back up its allegation of a ballot collection scheme highlighted in the movie ‘2000 Mules. [read post]
29 Aug 2024, 12:41 pm by Rick Hasen
NYT: The people who run elections in Georgia are angry and frustrated over new state rules that they say will make the process less secure and their jobs more difficult. [read post]
12 Sep 2024, 6:52 am by Rick Hasen
In a twist, though, both could still appear on the ballot in this battleground state. [read post]
16 Nov 2015, 5:42 am
"Georgia officials: KKK using adopt-a-highway program to advance 'Klan Country.'" Greg Bluestein of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has a blog post that begins, "The Ku Klux Klan's attempt to 'adopt' a stretch of highway in north Georgia is headed to the state's Supreme Court. [read post]
6 Jun 2015, 11:06 am
And Chris McDaniel of BuzzFeed News has an article headlined "Georgia (Reluctantly) Releases Results Of Execution Drug Experiment; The results of the experiment don't help the state's case that its execution drug became 'cloudy' because of the cold temperature it was stored in. [read post]
6 Nov 2023, 7:29 am by Rick Hasen
House seat in play — a potential pickup for Democrats — but the state is far from alone. [read post]
26 Oct 2023, 9:16 am by Rick Hasen
AJC: A federal judge ruled Thursday that Georgia’s district lines must be redrawn to ensure adequate representation of Black voters in Congress and the General Assembly, finding that the state’s maps illegally weakened their political power. [read post]
17 Feb 2017, 8:02 pm
As the article explains, "Lawmakers were spurred to act after a divided state Court of Appeals found that a man didn't break any Georgia laws when he filmed up a woman's skirt while she shopped at a grocery store -- a practice known as 'upskirting.'" My earlier coverage of that ruling can be accessed here. [read post]
3 Nov 2023, 11:59 am by Rick Hasen
WaPo: Lawyers for one of those defendants, Harrison Floyd, appeared in court Friday morning to argue that their client is entitled to thousands of pages of election records from Fulton County and the Georgia secretary of state. [read post]
7 Aug 2024, 5:51 am by Tabatha Abu El-Haj
TImes: In a move that is likely to sow discord in the counting of ballots this fall, the state’s Georgia Election Board approved on Tuesday a measure that empowers local officials to refuse or delay certification of a… Continue reading The post “Georgia Board Grants Local Officials New Power Over Certifying Elections” appeared first on Election Law Blog. [read post]
25 Jul 2024, 7:39 am by Spencer Overton
ABC News: ATLANTA — The Georgia State Election Board, which once toiled in relative obscurity, now hosts raucous meetings where public comment spans several hours and attendees regularly heckle its members. [read post]
4 Aug 2024, 7:54 am by Spencer Overton
Trump suggested without evidence on Saturday that Georgia’s Republican governor was hampering his efforts to win the battleground state in November, a claim that carried echoes of Mr. [read post]