The right wing of the Georgia State Election Board that champions rules favored by GOP supporters of President-elect Donald is set to get back to its agenda after court decisions thwarted past attempts to implement the changes before November.
The state and national Republican parties are appealing a judge's ruling that said seven election rules recently passed by Georgia's State Election Board are "illegal, unconstitutional and void." The Republicans want to overturn a ruling from Fulton County Superior Court Judge Thomas Cox, who on Wednesday ruled that the board did not have the authority to pass the rules.
An Associated Press survey finds that more than 63,000 Georgia voters have had their qualifications challenged since July 1. That's a big surge from 2023 and the first half of 2024, when the AP found that about 18,000 voters were challenged.
The Muscogee County Board of Elections and Registration has sued the State Election Board in Georgia to block a new rule requiring a hand count of ballots, saying the move is too late in the process and it will “dramatically” alter election work.
Georgia State Election Board officials will seek assistance from the state Legislature to establish clearer guidelines for maintaining accurate voter lists following a tense debate Tuesday over mass voter challenges.
An examination of a new election rule in Georgia suggests that local officials in just a handful of rural counties could exclude enough votes to affect the outcome of the 2024 presidential race.
A probe into allegations that several county election boards are failing to properly investigate challenges disputing voter eligibility is on the agenda of the controversial Georgia State Election Board on Tuesday.
A Republican-led group is challenging Georgia's new requirement that poll workers count the total number of ballots by hand. Eternal Vigilance Action is asking a judge to overturn the rule, saying it's another example of the State Election Board overstepping its legal authority.
Georgia’s State Election Board passed arguably the most contentious of the new rules it had been considering for conducting elections in the state on Friday over the objections of county-level election directors and over the advice of Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr.
A Georgia-based advocacy group headed by former Republican state Rep. Scot Turner filed suit in Fulton County Wednesday seeking to block rules changes three of the five board members approved in recent weeks allowing local election officials to delay certification of election results if they suspect fraud.
Georgia's Fulton County has hired a team of independent monitors to observe its operations for this year's general election. The monitoring of Fulton's elections was proposed during the discussion of a resolution of a State Election Board case against the county stemming from an election recount in 2020.
After keeping a low profile for years, the Georgia State Election Board — currently driven by a Trump-backed majority — is facing ethics complaints and a lawsuit. What's at issue?