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    Joe Biden speaks to the NABJ/NAHJ panel about cognitive testing.
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    Vice President Joe Biden, second from left, talks with Sen. Sam Nunn, left, developer Tom Cousins and executive director of the East Lake Foundation, Carol Naughton at the East Lake Early Leaning Academy Tuesday March 4, 2014.
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    June 5, 2020 Atlanta: Amanda McElveen holds 1-year old Luna (left) as Dad, Justin McElveen (right) interacts while they and other voters lined up in the rain on Friday, June 6, 2020 at Garden Hills Elementary School located at 285 Sheridan Dr NE, in Atlanta where the wait for early voting was between 1-2 hours. Georgia voters headed to the polls Friday for a busy last day of early voting before Tuesday’s primary election day. Voters have faced lines at some locations as election officials space them 6 feet apart and limit the number of people allowed inside at a time. Poll workers are also taking time to wipe down touchscreens. Over 1.1 million voters have already cast their ballots in the primary, including 262,000 in-person voters so far. Another 847,000 people have returned absentee ballots, a record number of remote voters during the coronavirus pandemic. While in-person early voting ends today, absentee ballots can still be counted if they’re received by the time polls close Tuesday. About 753,000 voters who requested absentee ballots hadn’t returned them through Thursday. Absentee ballots can be deposited in drop boxes any time before 7 p.m. Tuesday. Absentee ballots returned by mail will only be counted if they’re received by election offices by Tuesday. JOHN SPINK/JSPINK@AJC.COM
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    Georgia sued over long voting lines
    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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    Opinion: Two GOP runoffs and a glimpse of a Republican party after...
    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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    Georgia recruits poll workers to help run big elections
    Marjorie Taylor Greene was the top vote-getter in the June 9 GOP primary in northwest Georgia's 14th Congressional District, finishing with more than twice as many votes as her opponent in the Aug. 11 runoff, neurosurgeon John Cowan. But at least five Georgia Republican congressmen, in response to her support for QAnon conspiracy theories and her posting of racist and xenophobic web videos, have said they will not support her.
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    Election 2020: Intraparty rancor drives interest in Georgia runoff races
    When U.S. Rep. Doug Collins chose to run for the U.S. Senate seat held by fellow Republican Kelly Loeffler, a large field of candidates entered the GOP primary to fill his House seat in Georgia’s 9th Congressional District. BenGray.com / Special
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    Georgia Democrats file ethics complaint against Doug Collins
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    Where 9th District Republican runoff candidates stand on the issues
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    Where 14th District Republican runoff candidates stand on the issues
    'I'm a Georgia Voter' stickers are available for people to cast their ballots during a special election in Georgia's 6th Congressional District special election at St. Bede's Episcopal Church on June 20, 2017
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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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    Georgia’s Ossoff-Perdue race for Senate presents a striking contrast
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    PHOTOS: Gov. Kemp signs hate-crimes bill on last day of legislative...
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    PHOTOS: Georgia legislature passes hate-crimes bill
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    PHOTOS: Thousands march at Georgia Capitol as lawmakers return
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    PHOTOS: Georgia lawmakers return to Capitol after coronavirus
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    PHOTOS: Georgia voters struggle with long lines, new equipment, social...
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    PHOTOS: Georgians head to polls for early voting
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    PHOTOS: Georgia lawmakers consider new powers for Gov. Kemp amid...
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    PHOTOS: Crossover Day at Georgia legislature
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    PHOTOS: Trump visits CDC in Atlanta amid coronavirus outbreak
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    PHOTOS: Candidates qualify for Georgia 2020 elections
    U.S. Senate
    Vice President Joe Biden, second from left, talks with Sen. Sam Nunn, left, developer Tom Cousins and executive director of the East Lake Foundation, Carol Naughton at the East Lake Early Leaning Academy Tuesday March 4, 2014.
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    Sen. Kelly Loeffler gives a thumbs up as she is recognized by President Donald Trump during his visit in July to Atlanta. Loeffler and U.S. Rep. Doug Collins, who is running against her in a special election for her seat, have both worked hard in trying to win Trump's favor. Curtis Compton ccompton@ajc.com
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    Wary of ‘moderate’ brand, Loeffler aims for the hard right in Georgia...
    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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    The Jolt: Cobb County to pass on mailing out ballot applications for...
    Marjorie Greene, of Milton, and candidate for congress in the sixth district, participates in a "Stop Impeachment Now" rally outside the office of Rep. Lucy McBath on Wednesday, October 9, 2019, in Sandy Springs. (Elijah Nouvelage for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
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    The Jolt: A Holocaust smear enters the 14th District race for Congress
    U.S. House
    Vice President Joe Biden, second from left, talks with Sen. Sam Nunn, left, developer Tom Cousins and executive director of the East Lake Foundation, Carol Naughton at the East Lake Early Leaning Academy Tuesday March 4, 2014.
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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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    Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., is leading in her fight to win reelection to the Congress. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
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    Marjorie Greene, of Milton, and candidate for congress in the sixth district, participates in a "Stop Impeachment Now" rally outside the office of Rep. Lucy McBath on Wednesday, October 9, 2019, in Sandy Springs. (Elijah Nouvelage for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
    Political Insider Blog
    The Jolt: A Holocaust smear enters the 14th District race for Congress
    State offices
    In this June 7, 2020 photo provided by the Executive Office of District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser, John Lewis looks over a section of 16th Street that's been renamed Black Lives Matter Plaza in Washington. The Washington Monument and the White House are visible in the distance. Lewis, a lion of the civil rights movement whose bloody beating by Alabama state troopers in 1965 helped galvanize opposition to racial segregation, and who went on to a long and celebrated career in Congress, died. He was 80. (Khalid Naji-Allah/Executive Office of the Mayor via AP)
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    In this July 14, 2020, file photo, amid concerns of the spread of COVID-19, Aiden Trabucco, right, wears a mask as he raises his hand to answer a question behind Anthony Gonzales during a summer STEM camp at Wylie High School in Wylie, Texas. School districts that plan to reopen classrooms in the fall are wrestling with whether to require teachers and students to wear face masks — an issue that has divided urban and rural schools and yielded widely varying guidance. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)
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    Opinion: The re-opening of schools provokes sober thinking among...
    C.K. Hoffler, center, wore a face shield as she voted in Tuesday’s Georgia primary at Cross Keys High School in DeKalb County. JOHN SPINK/JSPINK@AJC.COM
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    Who’s on the ballot in Georgia primary runoffs
    Wanda Mosley of Black Voters Matter speaks Tuesday outside the Richard Russell B. Federal Building in Atlanta about a lawsuit seeking changes to elections to the Georgia Public Service Commission. Mosley is surrounded by other plaintiffs in the lawsuit, Georgia NAACP President James Woodall and Briont McCorkle of Georgia Conservation Voters. MARK NIESSE / MARK.NIESSE@AJC.COM
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    Lawsuit: Georgia Public Service Commission elections harm Black voters
    President
    Joe Biden speaks to the NABJ/NAHJ panel about cognitive testing.
    Political Insider Blog| 1h ago
    Joe Biden shares vision for presidency, dismantling Trump agenda in...
    Vice President Joe Biden, second from left, talks with Sen. Sam Nunn, left, developer Tom Cousins and executive director of the East Lake Foundation, Carol Naughton at the East Lake Early Leaning Academy Tuesday March 4, 2014.
    Political Insider Blog| 2h ago
    The Jolt: That day when Sam Nunn didn’t meet Joe Biden
    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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    Biden’s campaign launches first presidential ads in battleground Georgia
    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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    The Jolt: Cobb County to pass on mailing out ballot applications for...
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    Video: Falcons’ Matt Ryan on social action, new teammates
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    Falcons, Arthur Blank businesses launch voting initiative
    June 5, 2020 Atlanta: Amanda McElveen holds 1-year old Luna (left) as Dad, Justin McElveen (right) interacts while they and other voters lined up in the rain on Friday, June 6, 2020 at Garden Hills Elementary School located at 285 Sheridan Dr NE, in Atlanta where the wait for early voting was between 1-2 hours. Georgia voters headed to the polls Friday for a busy last day of early voting before Tuesday’s primary election day. Voters have faced lines at some locations as election officials space them 6 feet apart and limit the number of people allowed inside at a time. Poll workers are also taking time to wipe down touchscreens. Over 1.1 million voters have already cast their ballots in the primary, including 262,000 in-person voters so far. Another 847,000 people have returned absentee ballots, a record number of remote voters during the coronavirus pandemic. While in-person early voting ends today, absentee ballots can still be counted if they’re received by the time polls close Tuesday. About 753,000 voters who requested absentee ballots hadn’t returned them through Thursday. Absentee ballots can be deposited in drop boxes any time before 7 p.m. Tuesday. Absentee ballots returned by mail will only be counted if they’re received by election offices by Tuesday. JOHN SPINK/JSPINK@AJC.COM
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    Georgia sued over long voting lines
    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
    Local News
    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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    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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    How Peoplestown is grappling with protests for racial justice
    June 23, 2020 Atlanta - Rep Calvin Smyre (D-Columbus) waves as he is recognized after HB-426 passed in the House Chambers on day 37 of the legislative session at Georgia State Capitol on Tuesday, June 23, 2020. HB-426 passed. The bill Would implement stiffer penalties if those guilty of crimes are found to have been motivated by hate. (Hyosub Shin / Hyosub.Shin@ajc.com)
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    People wait in line to vote in the Georgia's primary election at Park Tavern on Tuesday, June 9, 2020, in Atlanta.
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    Stickers are displayed on a table during the Gwinnett County MARTA referendum special election at Harvest Community Church of the Nazarene in Lilburn, Tuesday, March 19, 2019. (ALYSSA POINTER/ALYSSA.POINTER@AJC.COM) AJC FILE PHOTO
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