Georgia

Voters in Georgia have an extra item on their to-do list this holiday season — voting in runoff elections that will decide control of the U.S. Senate, as well as a seat on Georgia’s Public Service Commission.

This coverage is made possible through Votebeat, a nonpartisan reporting project covering local election integrity and voting access. The article is available for reprint under the terms of Votebeat’s republishing policy. With the help of online influencers, Georgia Senate candidate Jon Ossoff is using social media

This coverage is made possible through Votebeat, a nonpartisan reporting project covering local election integrity and voting access. The article is available for reprint under the terms of Votebeat’s republishing policy. As analysts continue to debate the still emerging exit polls and voter data that will ultimately

After a letter from voting rights groups and concerns from the community, Cobb County has added two more early voting sites for a total of seven, down from the 11 the county had for the November election.

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani was in Georgia on Thursday to make claims of widespread voter fraud at one of two Senate committee hearings held on election security.

One of Georgia’s top election officials is condemning President Trump and the state’s Republican senators for not speaking out against violence after a Georgia election worker was threatened.

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger had sharply critical words for Fulton County election officials Tuesday after a ballot-scanning problem arose over the weekend.

While Georgia’s twin Senate runoffs in January have dominated state and national headlines, voters in Atlanta’s 5th Congressional District have another runoff to decide on Tuesday, to fill the remainder of the late John Lewis’ term.

After a record turnout in the November general election in Georgia, many voters are making a plan to vote in runoff elections in December and January. But those on the state’s “rollover” list already have part of the work taken care of. Georgians who are over the age of 65, members of the military or are physically

With a handful of exceptions, all of Georgia’s 159 counties completed a monumental hand tally of the state’s 5 million presidential ballots with little variation from the original numbers. Many counties say credit is due to county election workers.

An estimated 23,000 teenagers in Georgia who were too young to vote in the Nov. 3 general election will turn 18 in time to participate in the Jan. 5 runoff races for Georgia’s two U.S. Senate seats.

While absentee voting was used on a large scale for the first time during the Civil War, it really took off this year, as states encouraged the practice broadly during the coronavirus pandemic. In Georgia, more than six times as many people cast an absentee vote by mail in the 2020 presidential election than in 2016.

This coverage is made possible through Votebeat, a nonpartisan reporting project covering local election integrity and voting access. The article is available for reprint under the terms of Votebeat’s republishing policy. Most of Georgia had a relatively easy voting experience Tuesday, largely due to the record

Updated Tuesday at 11:28 p.m. Polls opened at 7 a.m. in Georgia in an election that has already seen record turnout during three weeks of early voting. On the ballot is not just the presidential race, but two for U.S. Senate, more than a dozen for the U.S. House and scores more local races across the state. Voters

This coverage is made possible by Votebeat, a nonpartisan reporting project covering local election integrity and voting access. The article is available for reprint under the terms of Votebeat’s republishing policy.  Georgia is having an eventful election season, with a pandemic, a hurricane and a brand new voting