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    Georgia Politics
    Battle lines quickly drawn in Georgia over Barrett’s nomination
    The Rev. Leann Culbreath speaks during a protest that followed a whistleblower's complaint about unwanted gynecological procedures on women in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody at the Irwin County Detention Center in Ocilla. JENNI GIRTMAN/For the AJC
    Georgia News
    Ga. ICE detainees tell congressional delegation of unwanted procedures...
    Georgia’s new voting machines by Dominion Voting Systems were demonstrated at the Secretary of State’s Office on Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2019. Voters will make their choices on touchscreens, which are connected to computers that will print out paper ballots for tabulation. Photo credit: Georgia Secretary of State
    Georgia Politics
    Error discovered on Georgia touchscreens in US Senate race
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    President Donald Trump talks with Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp and his wife Marty, right, Sen. David Perdue, R-Ga.,, center, and Sen. Kelly Loeffler, R-Ga., as he arrives at Dobbins Air Reserve Base for a campaign event at the Cobb Galleria Centre, Friday, Sept. 25, 2020, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
    Political Insider Blog
    Stay in! Get out! Dizzying messages in Georgia U.S. Senate race
    Elsie Grant, 86, sets her walker aside reaching for an air hug from her daughter, Wanda Schroeder, while socially distanced behind a protective plastic curtain at Westbury Medical Care & Rehab in June. Gov. Brian Kemp’s administration this week updated nursing home and assisted living visitation rules, paving a clearer path for families to resume seeing loved ones amid the pandemic. (Curtis Compton / ccompton@ajc.com)
    Coronavirus
    A look at major coronavirus developments over the past week
    Kara Dutton, principal, waves as school buses arrive at Jackson Elementary School in Lawrenceville on the first day of school for younger students amid the coronavirus outbreak on Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2020. Gwinnett County Public Schools does report COVID-19 cases by school on its website. Hyosub Shin / Hyosub.Shin@ajc.com
    Education
    Georgia withholds school COVID-19 counts from public
    President Donald Trump speaks Friday at the Cobb Galleria Centre during a campaign rally aimed at wooing Black voters, (AP Photo/John Bazemore)
    Georgia Politics
    In battleground Georgia, Trump woos Black voters
    Seven candidates are running Tuesday in a special election to fill the term of the late U.S. Rep. John Lewis. The Democrat from Atlanta, an icon of the civil rights movement, died in July. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)
    Georgia Politics
    Seven compete to fill John Lewis’ seat - briefly
    09/25/2020 - Atlanta, Georgia - President Donal Trump speaks during a Blacks for Trump campaign rally at the Cobb Galleria Centre in Atlanta, Friday, September 25, 2020. (Alyssa Pointer / Alyssa.Pointer@ajc.com)
    Georgia Politics
    Updates: Trump endorses Juneteenth holiday, anti-lynching law in Atlanta
    Vice President Mike Pence speaks at Midwest Manufacturing in Eau Claire, Wis. on Thursday, Sept. 24, 2020. (Dan Reiland/The Eau Claire Leader-Telegram via AP)
    Political Insider Blog
    VP Pence to headline conservative conference in Georgia next week
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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)
    Georgia Politics
    How to vote by mail in Georgia’s general election
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    Georgia Politics
    Where 5th District special election candidates stand on the issues
    In his bid for re-election, Republican U.S. Sen. David Perdue, left, faces Democrat Jon Ossoff.
    Georgia Politics
    Georgia’s Ossoff-Perdue race for Senate presents a striking contrast
    A voter casts his ballot in Georgia’s 6th Congressional District special election at a polling site in Sandy Springs, Ga., Tuesday, June 20, 2017. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
    Georgia Politics
    Georgia polls: Archive of AJC polls on issues and elections
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    The Georgia Legislative Navigator
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    Georgia Politics
    PHOTOS: Donald Trump campaigns in Atlanta
    Georgia Politics
    PHOTOS: U.S. Attorney General Barr, Ivanka Trump visit Atlanta, grants...
    Georgia Politics
    PHOTOS: Eric Trump campaigns in Georgia
    Georgia Politics
    PHOTOS: Georgia voters head to polls for runoff elections
    Georgia Politics
    PHOTOS: President Trump visits Atlanta
    Georgia Politics
    PHOTOS: Gov. Kemp signs hate-crimes bill on last day of legislative...
    Georgia Politics
    PHOTOS: Georgia legislature passes hate-crimes bill
    Georgia Politics
    PHOTOS: Thousands march at Georgia Capitol as lawmakers return
    Georgia Politics
    PHOTOS: Georgia lawmakers return to Capitol after coronavirus
    Political Insider Blog
    PHOTOS: Georgia voters struggle with long lines, new equipment, social...
    From our columnists
    A Gwinnett teacher says: "Society has asked for the lives of my family by requiring me to face a COVID-19 hot spot every work day. The lives of my family are not and never were a part of my teaching contract. To people who should know better, my family is considered a disposable, unfortunate collateral casualty, and are dismissed with a shrug because in-person instruction is mandatory."
    Get Schooled Blog
    'Lives of my family are not and never were a part of my teaching...
    Iris Mae Welch, left, Barbara Pace Hunt, center, and Myra Elliott, right, are largely unrecognized for the role they played in integrating Georgia's public universities. The author of a book about their sacrifices urges the state to honor the women by creating a statue of them or naming a building for them.
    Get Schooled Blog
    OPINION: Honor ‘hidden figures’ of Georgia’s college desegregation ...
    The 19 states which are having high school football seasons proceed as usual gave Donald Trump a mean of 54.73% of the vote, compared to 51.43% in the 14 states that are delaying football season for COVID-19, and just 40.93% for those cancelling fall football, a statistically significant difference
    Get Schooled Blog
    OPINION: Football aside, politics isn’t influencing school pandemic...
    Jim Beard, the city of Atlanta's former CFO, leaves the Richard B. Russell Federal Building in Atlanta, jogging to the car of one of his attorneys, Brittany Cambre, on Thursday, Sept 17, 2020. Beard had just entered a plea of not guilty to multiple federal charges. (Jenni Girtman for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
    AJC Columnists
    OPINION: Atlanta ex-CFO shot down by his hubris, not his machine guns
    Legislature
    Georgia’s new voting machines by Dominion Voting Systems were demonstrated at the Secretary of State’s Office on Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2019. Voters will make their choices on touchscreens, which are connected to computers that will print out paper ballots for tabulation. Photo credit: Georgia Secretary of State
    Georgia Politics
    Error discovered on Georgia touchscreens in US Senate race
    Kara Dutton, principal, waves as school buses arrive at Jackson Elementary School in Lawrenceville on the first day of school for younger students amid the coronavirus outbreak on Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2020. Gwinnett County Public Schools does report COVID-19 cases by school on its website. Hyosub Shin / Hyosub.Shin@ajc.com
    Education
    Georgia withholds school COVID-19 counts from public
    An aerial view of a solar panel array in Terrell County, Ga., taken in February. HYOSUB SHIN / HSHIN@AJC.COM
    Political Insider Blog
    Opinion: Why a looming coal ash problem could boost solar power in...
    FILE - In this a June 9, 2020, file photo, voters wait in line to cast their ballots in the state's primary election at a polling place in Atlanta, Ga. Georgia’s primary earlier this year became a poster child for election dysfunction. Election officials say they are making sweeping changes to avoid a repeat in November, as Georgia emerges as a potential presidential battleground where turnout is expected to set records and the coronavirus continues to rage. (AP Photo/Ron Harris, File)
    Georgia Politics
    AJC on Facebook: What you need to know to vote absentee in Georgia
    A service launched Thursday sends text messages or emails to voters as their absentee ballots move through Georgia's election system.
    Georgia Politics
    Absentee ballot tracking service launched for Georgia voters
    State Sen. Bill Cowsert, an Athens Republican, speaks during a Senate committee hearing. Bob Andres / bandres@ajc.com
    Georgia Politics
    Georgia police: better pay, more training will improve practices
    Gov. Brian Kemp wears a mask promoting the 2020 census Thursday during a press conference where he urged Georgians to participate in the headcount. (Alyssa Pointer / Alyssa.Pointer@ajc.com)
    Georgia Politics
    Kemp urges Georgians to ‘do the right thing’ and fill out census
    Georgia could drastically reduce the effect of the End of Course Milestones tests on student grades during the COVID-19 pandemic. AJC FILE
    Education
    Standardized test scores could be mostly erased from Ga. high schools...
    Elections
    Georgia’s new voting machines by Dominion Voting Systems were demonstrated at the Secretary of State’s Office on Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2019. Voters will make their choices on touchscreens, which are connected to computers that will print out paper ballots for tabulation. Photo credit: Georgia Secretary of State
    Georgia Politics
    Error discovered on Georgia touchscreens in US Senate race
    President Donald Trump speaks Friday at the Cobb Galleria Centre during a campaign rally aimed at wooing Black voters, (AP Photo/John Bazemore)
    Georgia Politics
    In battleground Georgia, Trump woos Black voters
    Seven candidates are running Tuesday in a special election to fill the term of the late U.S. Rep. John Lewis. The Democrat from Atlanta, an icon of the civil rights movement, died in July. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)
    Georgia Politics
    Seven compete to fill John Lewis’ seat - briefly
    09/25/2020 - Atlanta, Georgia - President Donal Trump speaks during a Blacks for Trump campaign rally at the Cobb Galleria Centre in Atlanta, Friday, September 25, 2020. (Alyssa Pointer / Alyssa.Pointer@ajc.com)
    Georgia Politics
    Updates: Trump endorses Juneteenth holiday, anti-lynching law in Atlanta
    In this Sept. 23, 2020, file photo Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden speaks during a Biden for President Black economic summit at Camp North End in Charlotte, N.C. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)
    Political Insider Blog
    Biden blasts Trump ahead of his visit to Georgia
    11/02/2018 -- Atlanta, Georgia -- Rev. Raphael G. Warnock, pastor of the historic Ebenezer Baptist Churchspeaks during a rally for gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams in Forbes Arena at Morehouse College, Friday, November 2, 2018. (ALYSSA POINTER/ALYSSA.POINTER@AJC.COM)
    Political Insider Blog
    Obama backs Ossoff, Warnock U.S. Senate bids in Georgia
    Voters line up to cast their ballots at a Sandy Springs precinct. The once reliably Republican suburbs of Atlanta could help determine elections up and down the ballot in Georgia this year, and suburban women could be the key. Republicans and Democrats are both gearing their messages with that in mind. JOHN SPINK/JSPINK@AJC.COM.
    Georgia Politics
    Why suburban Atlanta women are a top Georgia 2020 focus
    FILE - In this a June 9, 2020, file photo, voters wait in line to cast their ballots in the state's primary election at a polling place in Atlanta, Ga. Georgia’s primary earlier this year became a poster child for election dysfunction. Election officials say they are making sweeping changes to avoid a repeat in November, as Georgia emerges as a potential presidential battleground where turnout is expected to set records and the coronavirus continues to rage. (AP Photo/Ron Harris, File)
    Georgia Politics
    AJC on Facebook: What you need to know to vote absentee in Georgia
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    Georgia Politics
    Podcast: Analyzing results of recent poll of Georgia voters
    FILE - This Sunday, April 5, 2020, photo shows an envelope containing a 2020 census letter mailed to a U.S. resident in Detroit. The U.S. Census Bureau has spent much of the past year defending itself against allegations that its duties have been overtaken by politics. With a failed attempt by the Trump administration to add a citizenship question, the hiring of three political appointees with limited experience to top positions, a sped-up schedule and a directive from President Donald Trump to exclude undocumented residents from the process of redrawing congressional districts, the 2020 census has descended into a high-stakes partisan battle. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)
    Georgia Politics
    2020 Census: What’s at stake in Georgia as U.S. population counted
    Gwinnett County residents cast their votes during the Georgia primary elections at Pleasant Hill Presbyterian Church in Duluth on Tuesday, June 9, 2020. (Hyosub Shin / Hyosub.Shin@ajc.com)
    Election News
    The biggest question marks ahead of Georgia’s 2020 election season
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