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Youth movement helping to run Georgia elections
— By Mark Rice, The Ledger-Enquirer, October 25, 2020 — COLUMBUS, Ga. (AP) — Five years ago, when she was a sophomore at Carver High School, helping democracy in the community wasn’t what motivated Alana Daniels to be a poll worker. Daniels laughed as she told the...
Election turnout continues breaking records
— By Taylor Cooper, The Brunswick News, October 25, 2020 — Voter turnout broke records during the first week of early voting both statewide and in Glynn County, and the trend is likely to continue this week, election officials predict. By 8 p.m. Friday, 2.7 million...
More than 5,000 votes already cast in Habersham County
— By Matthew Osborne on Thursday, October 15, 2020 — Early voting in Habersham County began Tuesday, and combined with mail-in/absentee voting, thousands of votes already have been cast. Folks were lined up early each morning this week to be among the first to cast...
Get out and vote early, says Georgia’s Secretary of State
— By Ryan Kolakowski, Marietta Daily Journal, October 7, 2020 — MARIETTA — Georgia’s top election official has a simple message to the 5.5 million people he expects to cast a ballot in November’s general election. Vote early. Brad Raffensperger, Georgia’s secretary of...
Georgia absentee ballot requests so far: 5 times more than 2016 totals
— By Will Peebles, Athens Banner-Herald, October 1, 2020 — COVID-19 has pushed substantially more Georgia voters towards voting absentee this year than four years ago. At the end of the day on Tuesday, 1,352,070 Georgians had requested an absentee ballot for the Nov....
Voting by mail? You can now get alerts for absentee ballot updates
— By Jason Braverman, 11Alive, September 28, 2020 — ATLANTA — Georgians who vote by mail are getting another way to keep track of their ballot throughout the process. The Secretary of State announced BallotTrax, a service that allow voters to receive text messages,...
Line tracker, tech support aim to smooth hurdles in Nov. 3 election in Georgia
— By Beau Evans, Capitol Beat News Service,September 23, 2020 — Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger told members of the Atlanta Press Club Tuesday, Sept. 22, the new real-time tracker will let voters see wait times on Election Day and help officials pinpoint any...
Georgia Signs On Nearly 15,000 Poll Workers In Runup To November Election
— By Stanley Dunlap, GPB, September 9, 2020 — James Hammond is more than answering Georgia’s call to join a new army of poll workers ahead of November’s big election. He’s also turned into a one-man recruiting force. Georgia’s Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger’s...
UGA under pressure to allow in-person early voting on campus
— By Greg Bluestein, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, September 16, 2020 — Student groups, politicians and one of the state’s top elections officials urged the University of Georgia to reverse course Wednesday and allow early voting on campus, prompting the school to...
Glynn County pilots election audit program
— By Taylor Cooper, The Brunswick News, September 2, 2020 — Glynn County’s Board of Elections helped the state test a new election-security tool Tuesday. Tuesday’s trial of the process, called risk-limited auditing, was conducted by VotingWorks, a nonprofit dedicated...