A new lawsuit says extending the six-year terms of Georgia's elected public service commissioners violates the state constitution. Georgia WAND Education Fund and Georgia Conservation Voters Education Fund in a Wednesday lawsuit, are trying to overturn the law passed this year allowing the five Republicans to serve longer terms.
The Joint Blue Ribbon Committee Investigating Licensing Issues is expected to hold several meetings this year as it considers ways to reduce professional licensing glitches, costs and the amount of time it takes to process and review applications. Ideas include adopting more universal standards and making it easier to transfer licenses from other states and countries.
Conservative activists in Georgia and other states are using a new software tool as part of a broader effort to scrub voters from the rolls. As part of this initiative, they're asking election administrators to use their data to purge voter registrations, which means names could be removed in a less public process than a formal voter challenge.
The Carter Center Board of Trustees Chair and Georgia Deputy Secretary of State participated in a fireside chat during the "Building Better Elections" forum hosted by the Carter Center and Rice University's Baker Institute on May 17.
The U.S. Postal Service says local management is aware of concerns that some Georgians have over mail delays and reports of undelivered mail, with a general primary coming up in May — and absentee voting along with it. Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger joined GPB’s Morning Edition host Pamela Kirkland to share his thoughts about the problem and what actions voters should take to minimize delays.
A Georgia Senate committee wants to give the appointed State Election Board the legal power to investigate Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger's handling of elections. But Raffensperger's office says it's unconstitutional for board members to legally oversee him.
There isn’t time to remove QR codes from paper ballots in Georgia, as Republican legislative leaders have proposed, before this year’s elections, GOP Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said Wednesday.
A federal judge in Georgia has declined to block part of a sweeping election law that shortened the state's runoff election period to four weeks from nine weeks. The judge said Friday that plaintiffs hadn't proved that the shorter period disproportionately harmed Black voters.
The Georgia Senate is nominating a fifth member to the State Election Board. Former state Sen. Rick Jeffares must still be confirmed by the full Senate after the Thursday announcement by Lt. Gov. Burt Jones.
Opening statements are expected Tuesday as the trial in a long-running legal challenge to the constitutionality of Georgia's election system begins in federal court in Atlanta.
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger has renewed his call for a constitutional amendment prohibiting non-U.S. citizens from voting in elections in Georgia.
The question of whether Georgia's electronic voting system has major cybersecurity flaws that amount to a violation of voters' constitutional rights to cast their votes and have those votes accurately counted is set to be decided at trial early next year. U.S. District Judge Amy Totenberg issued a 135-page ruling late Friday in a long-running lawsuit filed by activists who want the state to ditch its electronic voting machines in favor of hand-marked paper ballots.
Threatening letters sent to local election offices in at least five states, some including fentanyl, are the latest concern for local election workers around the country. They already have faced harassment and even death threats since the 2020 presidential election.
Two of former President Donald Trump's lawyers are in an Atlanta courtroom listening in as his White House chief of staff Mark Meadows takes the witness stand. Meadows has a hearing over whether he should be allowed to fight a Georgia indictment accusing him of participating in an illegal scheme to overturn the 2020 election in federal court rather than state court.
