Legal experts say states could help married women who have changed their last names by accepting documents like a legal decree or a marriage certificate, but it might not fix the issue for all.
A federal judge has dismissed a long-running lawsuit challenging the security of Georgia’s electronic voting machines even though the judge maintained substantial concerns about the system.
Georgia lawmakers are retreating from some controversial election proposals. A proposed bill would no longer allow the Donald Trump-aligned State Election Board to possibly strike thousands of challenged voters from the rolls.
The U.S. Justice Department is suing a Georgia county, alleging that its method of electing county commissioners violates the rights of Black voters. The lawsuit filed Thursday in U.S. District Court asks a judge to stop Houston County from continuing to use countywide elections for each of its five commission seats.
Republicans in Congress plan to move quickly in their effort to overhaul the nation's voting procedures, seeing an opportunity with control of the White House and both chambers of Congress. They want to push through long-sought changes such as voter ID and proof-of-citizenship requirements.
Georgia’s State Election Board voted Monday to request state lawmakers pass legislation next year making voter lists readily available to the public before and after elections.
The Georgia State Election Board will hold its first post-election meeting on Monday, where it is set to consider resuming its recent push to change Georgia’s election rules and stir the debate anew about counties review controversial mass voter challenges.
Democrats and Republicans in Georgia and across the country have fought for four years in the courts and in Washington, D.C. over changes to election rules enacted by the state’s GOP Legislature following the election of Joe Biden in 2020.
Vice President Kamala Harris' presidential campaign fired up Georgia's Black communities with enthusiasm not seen since Barack Obama's first campaign 16 years ago.
Georgia's highest court has stayed a lower court ruling that would have allowed certain voters in the state's third-largest county who received their absentee ballots late to return them after the deadline. That means the affected Cobb County residents must vote in person on Election Day, which is Tuesday, or get their absentee ballots to the county elections office by 7 p.m. that day
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A video that purports to show election fraud in Georgia by a man who claims to be from Haiti is fake and the work of “Russian influence actors,” U.S. intelligence officials said Friday.
In partnership with WNET for the nonpartisan Preserving Democracy project's "Ready to Vote" social media campaign, Georgia Public Broadcasting interviewed students from Berry College in Rome, Ga., and Georgia Tech in Atlanta about their plans to vote and their thoughts on democracy ahead of the election.
“There's no need to panic,” an elections expert tells NPR. All but three states have free tracking sites that send updates to voters as their ballot goes through the system.
