More than half of absentee ballot applications rejected in Georgia in advance of the Nov. 2 elections were turned down because they came in after a deadline created in Georgia’s new voting law.
This year’s election may not come with the big-ticket items it did last year, but voters we spoke to in Effingham County aren’t looking at it that way.
Port Wentworth is preparing for election day with a city council candidate forum. Port Wentworth Chamber of Commerce hosted this forum tonight at The Wingate by Wyndham hotel.
In just one week, people who live in Georgia’s 165th district will get to hear from the candidates running to be their representative in the Georgia House of Representatives.
With only three towns in Beaufort County holding general elections this year, the two referendums on the county-wide ballot are the focus points for most residents.
With scheduled public hearings over for the state senators and representatives, elected officials are getting ready to start to redraw the state’s district maps.
A Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax, or SPLOST, will be on the ballot this year and leaders in the county are hoping residents turn out and vote “yes” on the penny tax.
Coming into this period of in-person absentee voting, the general thought at the Beaufort County board of elections and voter registration was that turnout wouldn’t be in great numbers, and that was the case on the first day Monday when they only had two voters.
A special South Carolina House committee considering drawing new districts based on the 2020 U.S. Census is holding its final meeting to gather public comment this week.
In-person voting in the Lowcountry starts in just a few days, but Friday Beaufort County voters had a chance to get up close and personal with the systems responsible for counting their ballots.
Lt. Governor Geoff Duncan and Senator John F. Kennedy, Chairman of the Senate Redistricting and Reapportionment Committee, released a proposed draft of the Georgia Congressional Districts on Monday.
An initial proposal to redraw Georgia’s congressional districts appears to give Republicans a better chance of winning a suburban Atlanta congressional district now held by Democrat Lucy McBath.
Georgia’s secretary of state is moving forward with a study of the effectiveness of the signature verification process that the state previously used for absentee ballots.
The new law, known as SB 202, also adds a voter ID requirement for mail ballots, shortens the time period for requesting a mail ballot, results in fewer ballot drop boxes available in metro Atlanta and gives the State Election Board new powers to intervene in county election offices and to remove and replace local election officials.
The wife of potential U.S. Senate candidate Herschel Walker voted in Georgia in November, although she doesn’t identify her Atlanta house as her primary residence for taxes.
This week the Georgia Secretary of State says county election officials sent more than 185,000 no-contact notices to people, statewide, in an effort to clean the voter rolls.
