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    12/14/2020 —  Atlanta, Georgia — Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger during a press conference at the Georgia State Capitol building in Atlanta, Monday, December 14, 2020.  (Alyssa Pointer / Alyssa.Pointer@ajc.com)
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    The Jolt: GOP voting bills take power from locals & Brad Raffensperger, give to lawmakers
    From left, Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., Sen. Jon Ossoff, D-Ga., and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., hold a news conference to discuss the COVID relief bill, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 11, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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    The Jolt: Biden’s $1.9T aid package is already factoring into Georgia’s 2022 election
    Govenor Brian Kemp announces expanded vaccine sites across Georgia on Wednesday, March 3, 2021 at the Capital.  (Jenni Girtman for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
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    The Jolt: Kemp not ready to join GOP governors relaxing COVID precautions
    Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp talks with the media about Georgia’s four mass COVID-19 vaccination sites Monday at the State Operations Center, GEMA, February 22, 2021   STEVE SCHAEFER FOR THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION
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    The Jolt: Kemp faces test with GOP-backed voting restrictions
    A group of men hoist U.S. Rep. John Lewis, D-Atlanta, on their shoulders so he can speak to the crowd of marchers at the Edmund Pettus Bridge during Selma's re-enactment of Bloody Sunday on Sunday, March 1, 2020, in Selma.  Curtis Compton ccompton@ajc.com
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    The Jolt: Democrats still look to John Lewis as their moral center
    02/25/2021 —Atlanta, Georgia —Demonstrators protest House Bill 531 outside of the Georgia State Capitol building on day 23 of the legislative session in downtown Atlanta Thursday, February 25, 2021. (Alyssa Pointer / Alyssa.Pointer@ajc.com)
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    The Jolt: Georgia Democrats play hardball to derail GOP voting restrictions
    Kemp to announce new phase of COVID-19 vaccines to include teachers, sources say
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    The Jolt: Kemp on still-closed schools: ‘We can’t keep finding excuses’
    President Jimmy Carter and Rosalynn Carter talk about the future of The Carter Center and their global work during a town hall, Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2019, in Atlanta. BRANDEN CAMP/SPECIAL
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    The Jolt: Carter Center warns against using old report to justify new rollbacks
    Georgia Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan watches as Senator Larry Walker speaks on SB67 on day 21 of the legislative session in the Senate Chambers at the Georgia State Capitol Building in downtown Atlanta, Tuesday, February 23, 2021.
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    The Jolt: Why Georgia elections may never be the same
    FILE -- Stacey Abrams, the Georgia Democrat and former state House Minority Leader who has become synonymous with the party’s attempts to win statewide, speaks in Atlanta on June 6, 2019. Democrats won Georgia in this year’s presidential election for the first time since 1992. (Audra Melton/The New York Times)
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    The Jolt: Stacey Abrams’ answer to a GOP version of Fair Fight
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