Voting rights groups are investigating the Macon-Bibb County Board of Elections for “voter irregularities’‘ after voters received ballots for the wrong districts during the May primary election, and the issue may not be resolved.
A federal judge who has presided over some of the most high-profile Georgia cases in recent years will take senior status starting in January, creating a new vacancy.
Challengers are telling a federal judge that Georgia Republican state lawmakers' new voting districts don't cure illegal vote dilution and should be rejected. But the state of Georgia told the judge Wednesday that new congressional and state legislative maps comply with a court order to draw new Black-majority districts, even if the plaintiffs don't like Republicans' partisan choices.
A federal judge has ruled that school board districts in Georgia's second-largest school system appear to be unconstitutionally discriminatory and must be redrawn ahead of next year's elections.
Georgia state senators are advancing a new congressional map that would maintain a 9-5 GOP edge in the state's delegation. The Senate voted 32-22 to pass the plan, which seeks a wholesale reconfiguration of a suburban Atlanta district now represented by Democrat Lucy McBath.
Georgia Republicans want to redraw the state's congressional districts to create a new court-ordered Black majority district while maintaining the current 9-5 Republican congressional majority. The proposal released Friday shows they are again targeting Democratic U.S. Rep. Lucy McBath's district for wholesale transformation.
Tuesday on Political Rewind: Gov. Brian Kemp's trip to Israel is drawing international attention to a bill to fight antisemitism that failed under the Gold Dome. Meanwhile, a report notes that gerrymandering has left Georgia without a single competitive district. And who will voters blame if the U.S. debt defaults?
On this edition of Political Rewind, Governor Deal announces a first step to build new transit in metro Atlanta, a huge project along Georgia 400. Is...
