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    Joe Biden speaks to the NABJ/NAHJ panel about cognitive testing.
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    FILE - In this July 28, 2020, file photo, Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden speaks at a campaign event at the William "Hicks" Anderson Community Center in Wilmington, Del. Biden’s campaign is reserving $280 million in digital and television ads through the fall, nearly twice the amount Donald Trump’s team has reserved at this point. The Biden campaign announced in a Aug. 5 memo it’s reserving $220 million on television airtime and $60 million in digital ads, in contrast to the $147 million the Trump campaign has reserved, according to a review of Kantar/CMAG data by the Associated Press.(AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)
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    Mail-in paper ballots wait to be scanned by Fulton County employees at the Georgia World Congress Center during the Georgia primary on June 9. (ALYSSA POINTER / ALYSSA.POINTER@AJC.COM)
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    A woman walks into the Dekalb County Voter Registration & Elections Office to vote in Decatur Saturday, May 30, 2020. STEVE SCHAEFER FOR THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION
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    The Great American Outdoor Act signed Aug. 4, 2020, will help fund repairs at national parks including Kennesaw Mountain Battlefield National Park. CONTRIBUTED(Courtesy of National Park Service)
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    Emanual Frazier (R) stands in line to vote at The Wolf Creek Library in Atlanta Saturday, August 1, 2020. STEVE SCHAEFER / SPECIAL TO THE AJC
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    On October 23, 2019, Councilman Antonio Brown visited a blighted apartment complex on Verbena Street in northwest Atlanta, where he talked with reporters. (Bob Andres / robert.andres@ajc.com)
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    06/26/2020 - Atlanta, Georgia - Gov. Brian Kemp prepares to make remarks before signing HB 426, Georgia's hate crime law, in the North Wing of the Georgia State Capitol building on Sine Die, day 40, of the legislative session in Atlanta, Friday, June 26, 2020. (ALYSSA POINTER / ALYSSA.POINTER@AJC.COM)
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    Veto day: Kemp faces decision over ‘police protection’ bill
    FILE - In this Jan. 31, 2020, file photo, Sen. David Perdue, R-Ga., leaves Capitol Hill in Washington. Perdue has taken down a digital campaign ad featuring a manipulated picture of his Demoncratic opponent, Jon Ossoff, who is Jewish, with an enlarged nose. A spokeswoman for Perdue said in a statement Monday, July 27, 2020, that the image has been removed from Facebook, calling it an “unintentional error” by an outside vendor, without naming the vendor. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)
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    Parents walk their children to the entrance of Woodstock Elementary School in Cherokee County on the first day of school on August 3, 2020. A second-grade class at Sixes Elementary School in Cherokee will have to quarantine for two weeks after a student tested positive for COVID-19. STEVE SCHAEFER FOR THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION
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    In his bid for re-election, Republican U.S. Sen. David Perdue, left, faces Democrat Jon Ossoff.
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    PHOTOS: Gov. Kemp signs hate-crimes bill on last day of legislative...
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    On October 23, 2019, Councilman Antonio Brown visited a blighted apartment complex on Verbena Street in northwest Atlanta, where he talked with reporters. (Bob Andres / robert.andres@ajc.com)
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    “Our hope is that shortly after the school year starts, we can begin to honor the choices parents made in July for either in-person or digital instruction for their children. A letter confirming the parent’s choice for each child will be sent by mid-August,” said the letter today from Superintendet J. Alvin Wilbanks. STEVE SCHAEFER / SPECIAL TO THE AJC
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    The first waves of returning college students are arriving at campuses, including North Carolina State University in Raleigh, N.C. At N.C. State, the return of students was staggered over 10 days, and students were greeted Friday by socially distant volunteers donning masks and face shields. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)
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    Hundreds of parents, students and community members rally to call on Superintendent Chris Ragsdale and the Cobb school board to offer in-person classes alongside virtual learning outside Cobb County Civic Center in Marietta on Saturday, August 1, 2020. The protesters gathered Saturday at the Cobb County Civic Center to call on Superintendent Chris Ragsdale and the Cobb school board to offer in-person classes alongside virtual learning to students returning to the classroom Aug. 17. (Hyosub Shin / Hyosub.Shin@ajc.com)
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    Emanual Frazier (R) stands in line to vote at The Wolf Creek Library in Atlanta Saturday, August 1, 2020. STEVE SCHAEFER / SPECIAL TO THE AJC
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    Parents walk their children to the entrance of Woodstock Elementary School in Cherokee County on the first day of school on August 3, 2020. A second-grade class at Sixes Elementary School in Cherokee will have to quarantine for two weeks after a student tested positive for COVID-19. STEVE SCHAEFER FOR THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION
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    Slutty Vegan stays open late to serve their plant-based burgers.
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    Kasharri Blacknell, a poll worker, places tape indicators for maintaining social distancing as Gwinnett County residents cast their votes June 9 during the Georgia primary elections at Pleasant Hill Presbyterian Church in Duluth. (Hyosub Shin / Hyosub.Shin@ajc.com)
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    Discount Nutrition in Atlanta sells a type of cannabidiol made from hemp that contains trace amounts of THC. Because Georgia didn’t allow hemp farming until last year, all CBD oil was imported from other states. Now, CBD oil can also be made from locally grown hemp. Gov. Brian Kemp signed legislation that sets regulations for growing and processing hemp in the state. BOB ANDRES /BANDRES@AJC.COM
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    Hemp farming regulations signed into Georgia law
    Gov. Brian Kemp signed legislation Monday that will allow stores and at least some restaurants to deliver beer, wine and liquor to people's homes. ELISSA EUBANKS
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    11/14/2018 -- Atlanta, Georgia -- Georgia State Senator Nikema Williams speaks during a press conference at the Capitol Building in Atlanta, Wednesday, November 14, 2018. Sen. Williams said she spent more than 4 hours in the Fulton County Jail after being arrested during a protest in the Capitol rotunda Wednesday afternoon. (ALYSSA POINTER/ALYSSA.POINTER@AJC.COM)
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    Confusing Georgia law at heart of debate over Lewis’ successor
    People vote at the Wolf Creek Library in South Fulton on Saturday, Aug. 1, 2020. STEVE SCHAEFER /SPECIAL TO THE AJC
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    Early voting enters final week before Georgia runoff
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    Joe Biden speaks to the NABJ/NAHJ panel about cognitive testing.
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    A woman walks into the Dekalb County Voter Registration & Elections Office to vote in Decatur Saturday, May 30, 2020. STEVE SCHAEFER FOR THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION
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    DeKalb absentee ballot plan would ‘open election to fraud,’ state says
    Emanual Frazier (R) stands in line to vote at The Wolf Creek Library in Atlanta Saturday, August 1, 2020. STEVE SCHAEFER / SPECIAL TO THE AJC
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    Runoffs bring changes to Georgia elections after primary problems
    July 20, 2020 Atlanta: Early voting for Georgia’s runoff elections began Monday, including at a giant polling place on the Atlanta Hawks’ home court, State Farm Arena (shown here). The runoffs will decide races left unsettled after last month’s primaries, including for the U.S. House of Representatives, Fulton County district attorney, the Georgia General Assembly and superior courts. Three weeks of in-person early voting is available across Georgia, but the biggest voting site in state history is inside State Farm Arena in downtown Atlanta. The arena, equipped with 100 voting stations, is designed to ease long lines and provide a central location available to any of Fulton’s 814,000 registered voters. Eighteen other early voting sites are also available in Fulton. The arena transformed into a voting site after some voters waited for hours to cast their ballots in June because of social distancing requirements, precinct closures, poll worker shortages and difficulties operating Georgia’s new voting equipment. Election officials say they’re making changes to avoid similar problems again. They’re improving poll worker training, identifying overcrowded precincts and adding tech support staff at voting locations. After record turnout in the June 9 primary, with nearly 2.4 million voters, fewer people are expected to participate in the runoff. JOHN SPINK/JSPINK@AJC.COM
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    March 29, 2020 Atlanta: Customers wait in line to enter the Home Depot store at Midtown Place while the store limits the number of occupants to maintain six feet of space between shoppers and help prevent the spread of coronavirus on Sunday, March 29, 2020, in Atlanta. Curtis Compton ccompton@ajc.com
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    Georgia State Senator Nikema Williams (Democrat - 39 holds her son Carter Small after Williams gave her speech for the Democratic Party of Georgia Chair position at the 2019 Georgia Democratic Party State Convention in Atlanta GA January 26, 2019. STEVE SCHAEFER / SPECIAL TO THE AJC
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    How Nikema Williams was selected to replace John Lewis
    FILE - In this Dec. 6, 2019 file photo, Civil rights leader Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., is hugged as House Democrats gathered before passing the Voting Rights Advancement Act to eliminate potential state and local voter suppression laws, at the Capitol in Washington. At right is Rep. Terri Sewell, D-Ala., who introduced the bill and who represents Selma, Ala., a city that was at the forefront of the 1960s civil rights movement. They are joined at far right by Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt. Mourning the death of civil rights hero John Lewis, Democrats are urging the Senate to take up a bill of enduring importance to Lewis throughout his life: protecting and expanding the right to vote. Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Majority Whip Jim Clyburn and other Democrats say the Senate should take up a House-passed bill to restore key sections of the 1965 Voting Rights Act and rename it for Lewis. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell called Lewis a “great man” who helped bend the nation’s history toward justice, but Republicans appear unlikely to bring up the voting rights bill for a Senate vote. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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    07/07/2020 - Atlanta, Georgia - Bruce W. Griggs, right, holds onto a giant sympathy card for Secoriea Turner's family as a man signs it outside of the All American Package Store in Atlanta's Peoplestown community, Tuesday, July 7, 2020. The card was provided by radio DJ Gregg Street and the OCS Atlanta Street Academy. (ALYSSA POINTER / ALYSSA.POINTER@AJC.COM)
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