The pews were filling up inside Mount Zion Baptist Church, where former President Bill Clinton was set to launch his rural campaign swing for Vice President Kamala Harris in this Democratic stronghold bordering a sea of rural red Georgia.
The counties with the highest early voting turnout all voted for the same candidate in 2020. What does this mean for 2024?
A warning by Supreme Court judge Brett Kavanaugh that hand-counting ballots can lead to "chaos and confusion" has been used by a Georgia judge to strike down a new election rule. Judge Robert McBurney appeared to choose Kavanaugh's words to counter any Republican challenge to the Supreme Court.
Early voting polling places at Atlanta were full of enthusiastic voters on the first two days of early voting.
At least 252,000 voters had cast ballots at early-voting sites as of 4 p.m. EDT (2000 GMT), nearly double the 136,000 who participated in the first day of early voting in the 2020 election, said Gabriel Sterling, Georgia's No. 2 election official. "Spectacular turnout," he wrote on social media.
Georgia is experiencing a record turnout of early voters, with over 365,000 ballots cast across the Peach State since early voting opened on Oct. 15.
The measures had been promoted by the State Election Board. The judge called them “illegal, unconstitutional and void.”
For the second day in a row a judge has blocked new rules passed by Georgia’s election board ahead of the November election, declaring that the changes to how ballots are counted and how vote counts are certified are “illegal,
A judge in Georgia has struck down a slate of controversial new election rules passed by Donald Trump allies, including two that Democrats say would inject post-election “chaos” into the critical battleground state.
More than 300,000 Georgians cast a ballot Tuesday for the November election, the first day of early voting, doubling the state’s day-one record. On Wednesday, there were no signs that the pace was slowing down. More than 88,000 votes had been cast as of 11:30 a.m. Wednesday, according to data from the crucial battleground state.