News Georgia Politics: On Politics: Trump Delays Some Tariffs
Here are some of the stories making news in Washington and politics today. • President Trump has unexpectedly ... the harm they say the tariffs are doing. • Stacey Abrams, the Georgia politician who ...
News Georgia Politics: New Georgia voting equipment gets a passing grade from testing company
Georgia’s new voting system passed equipment tests by a ... The certification allows the voting system to be used in elections. Up to six counties will test the system during local elections this ...
News Georgia Politics: Georgia's Abrams announces new voter protection program
ATLANTA (AP) — Democrat Stacey Abrams, who vaulted onto the national political stage championing voting rights during an unsuccessful 2018 run for Georgia governor, announced on Tuesday that she's launching
News Georgia Politics: Georgia buys new voting machines for 2020 presidential election
The announcement is a defining moment for Georgia’s elections, reintroducing paper ballots to Election Day voting for the first time since the state converted to electronic ballots in 2002 following ...
News Georgia Politics: Don’t Be Deceived by the Chaos in Georgia
Over the past few weeks protests in Tbilisi, Georgia, have stirred up a huge amount of political turmoil. Perhaps from up close that turmoil seem negative due to the alarming number of protests is alarming, but in the grand scheme of things, it is a sign that Georgia’s democracy is thriving.
News Georgia Politics: Georgia elections chief: Paper ballots will settle election disputes
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said Tuesday that “there won’t be any doubts” about election results once the state installs its new $107 million voting system, which includes a paper ...
News Georgia Politics: Capitol Recap: Polls reveal lay of the land in battleground Georgia
Expectations are that Georgia will be a battleground in the 2020 elections, but recent polls show it’s hardly an even field that red and blue armies will traverse. Republicans hold some high ground, ...
News Georgia Politics: The Latest: Judge could force Georgia to use paper ballots
A federal judge says Georgia allowed its election system to ... of an interim solution for this fall's special and municipal elections. Georgia plans to implement a new voting system statewide ...
News Georgia Politics: After 40 years in political exile, Jimmy Carter is still a preacher at heart
PLAINS, Ga. — They had come to this small town and ... we are lacking moral integrity and leadership in our political system. … I wanted to be reminded that that still exists and it will ...
News Georgia Politics: Black Georgia Lawmaker Alleges White Man Told Her to 'Go Back Where You Came From' in Grocery Store Confrontation
A black lawmaker in Georgia says a white man verbally harassed ... that Thomas is trying to use the situation to advance her political career. “This woman is playing the victim for political ...
News Georgia Politics: Trump’s ‘go back’ attacks roil Georgia politics
And Clinton held little back at the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, labeling President Donald Trump’s assertion that four liberal congresswoman of color should “go back” to their home ...
News Georgia Politics: Georgia state lawmaker Erica Thomas now uncertain man told her to 'go back to where you came from'
WASHINGTON – A man accused of telling an African-American Georgia state lawmaker to "go back to where you came from" because she had too many items in the express checkout line at a grocery store ...
News Georgia Politics: Georgia rep.: Dems trying to make AG Barr the 'bad guy'
Doug Collins, R-Ga., on Thursday accused Rep ... testify on his handling of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report on Russian meddling in the 2016 elections. Barr, who testified for hours on the same ...
News Georgia Politics: Congressman Jody Hice, bravest man in politics
Jody Hice isn’t that well-known outside of his Georgia district, outside of his circle of Republican ... founding truths of America and about the honest realities of modern-day politics and culture — ...
News Georgia Politics: Georgia governor is her likely goal, but Abrams keeps options open
Brian Kemp, who she says abused the powers of his perch as Georgia’s top elections official to cement his narrow victory. Now that Abrams has passed up a race for the U.S. Senate, she is more likely ...
News Georgia Politics: Stacey Abrams’s next move could bolster Democrats in Georgia — and her own political fortunes
DECATUR, Ga. — In a quiet suite of offices above a bank in this eastern Atlanta suburb, Democrat Stacey Abrams’s newest venture is quickly taking shape. With her decision this week not to run for U.S. ...