Georgia Voting

Poll workers respond to early glitches at the Park Tavern polling place located at 500 10th St NE, on Tuesday, June 9, 2020 in Atlanta. Many voters said they requested absentee ballots but never received them. Two lines, 300-yards long each formed parallel to Piedmont park in the parking lot as people patiently waited to vote. JOHN SPINK/JSPINK@AJC.COM

Appeals court restores Georgia’s Election Day absentee ballot deadline

09/03/2020 -Atlanta, Georgia - Attorneys Joyce Gist Lewis (left), Halsey Knapp (center) and Adam M. Sparks of the Krevolin & Horst firm stand for portrait outside of their office building in Atlanta's Midtown community, Thursday, September 3, 2020. (Alyssa Pointer / Alyssa.Pointer@ajc.com)

Courts will decide Georgia voting rights — and maybe election results

June 9, 2020 Atlanta: Voters had a long wait (some 2-3 hours) at the Park Tavern polling place located at 500 10th St NE, on Tuesday, June 9, 2020 in Atlanta. Many voters said they requested absentee ballots but never received them. Two lines, 300-yards long each formed parallel to Piedmont park in the parking lot as people patiently waited to vote. Over 1.2 million people had already voted before the polls opened on Tuesday, three-quarters of them with absentee-by-mail ballots, allowing them to avoid human contact at the polls. Voters will decide on many candidates, from president to county sheriff. The ballot also includes races for U.S. Senate, U.S. House and the Georgia General Assembly. JOHN SPINK/JSPINK@AJC.COM

Extreme voting lines expose where Georgia primary failed

Georgia voting

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger announced Tuesday that 1,000 Georgians voted twice in the state’s June 9 primary, a felony that he said will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law during a press conference at Liberty Plaza across from the Georgia State Capitol. These voters returned absentee ballots and then also showed up to vote on election day, Raffensperger said. County election officials are able to stop double-voting most of the time, but they weren’t able to catch everyone. “A double-voter knows exactly what they’re doing, diluting the votes of each and every voter that follows the law,” Raffensperger said. “Those that make the choice to game the system are breaking the law. And as secretary of state, I will not tolerate it.” Double-voting didn’t change the outcome of any races in the primary, Raffensperger said. (John Spink / John.Spink@ajc.com)

1,000 people double-voted in Georgia primary, says secretary of state

Fahim Akbar (far left) takes a selfie with his parents, Jalal Akbar and Ruby Begum after they voted on Thursday Oct. 18, 2018 at the Cobb County West Park Government Center at 736 Whitlock Ave NW in Marietta that had waits for early voting that sometimes stretched to three hours. JOHN SPINK/JSPINK@AJC.COM

Rise of young and diverse Georgia voters may influence 2020 elections

State Election Board members prepare for an emergency hearing in March at the Georgia Center for Continuing Education in Athens. (Photo/Austin Steele for The Atlanta Journal Constitution)

Vote-by-mail fraud more a fear than a reality in Georgia

Donell Peterman talks about voter registration issues in his Union City home. STEVE SCHAEFER / SPECIAL TO THE AJC

Many eligible Georgia voters were canceled in nation’s largest purge

People lined up for early voting in Gwinnett County. Georgia purged more than 600,000 people from voter rolls in 2017. HYOSUB SHIN / HSHIN@AJC.COM

Digging Deep

Georgia’s strict laws lead to large purge of voters

August 11, 2020 Atlanta: Some 70 Fulton County Registration & Election Board workers handled some 20,000 absentee ballots on Tuesday, August 11, 2020 at State Farm Arena located at 1 State Farm Drive in Atlanta. A heated race for Fulton County district attorney saw a light turnout at the polls on Tuesday, August 11, 2020. Incumbent Paul Howard faces his former chief deputy, Fani Willis, in a closely watched contest to become the county’s top prosecutor. Election officials said they learned lessons from the June 9 primary to avoid the kind of extreme lines that some voters encountered last time. Poll workers have been retrained. Technicians were on hand at every voting location in Cobb, DeKalb, Fulton and Gwinnett counties. Voting machines were delivered well in advance of election day. Still, some voters experienced problems and long waits at the polls. Nearly 377,000 Georgians already voted in advance of election day, most of them casting absentee ballots. About 60% of early votes were absentee; the rest were cast in person during three weeks of early voting. With so many voters using absentee ballots, election results might be slow to come in Tuesday night. Absentee ballots will be counted if they’re received by county election officials before 7 p.m., but each ballot has to be fed through a scanner to be counted, a process that can take days. Election officials say it’s normal for absentee vote-counting to take some time. But that means close races might not be settled on election night. The winners of Tuesday’s runoffs will advance to the general election in November, when turnout is expected to break records and exceed 5 million voters. JOHN SPINK/JSPINK@AJC.COM

Georgia voters to be made ‘inactive’ after absentee mail undeliverable

People vote at the Wolf Creek Library in South Fulton on Saturday, Aug. 1, 2020. STEVE SCHAEFER /SPECIAL TO THE AJC

Double-voting and election irregularities alleged in Long County, Ga.

Poll workers respond to early glitches at the Park Tavern polling place in Atlanta on June 9. Many voters said they requested absentee ballots for the Georgia primary but never received them. JOHN SPINK/JSPINK@AJC.COM

Records reveal dozens of investigations into Georgia election problems

Voters wait in a line Tuesday that stretched around the Metropolitan Library. STEVE SCHAEFER FOR THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION

Election fiasco reveals flaws with Georgia’s new voting system

Election depends on hiring many new poll workers across Georgia

Voters waited as much as 3 1/2 hours in long lines, at times in the rain, Tuesday at New Beginnings Full Gospel Church. (Jenni Girtman for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

Georgia’s election problems blasted as November vote looms

Election workers sort absentee ballots on Tuesday, August 11, 2020 at State Farm Arena. JOHN SPINK/JSPINK@AJC.COM

Judge rules Georgia ballots mailed by Election Day must be counted

Nov 6, 2018 Winterville: Secretary of State Brian Kemp, Republican candidate for Georgia governor, with his daughter Amy Porter, casts his vote at the Winterville Train Depot on Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018, in Winterville. Curtis Compton/ccompton@ajc.com

U.S. House investigation targets Kemp and Georgia voting problems

Poll workers respond to early glitches at the Park Tavern polling place located at 500 10th St NE, on Tuesday, June 9, 2020 in Atlanta. Many voters said they requested absentee ballots but never received them. Two lines, 300-yards long each formed parallel to Piedmont park in the parking lot as people patiently waited to vote. JOHN SPINK/JSPINK@AJC.COM

Turnout broke records in Georgia primary despite coronavirus threat

Poll manager Michelle Hairston and poll workers wait between voters during Tuesday's election runoff at Flat Shoals Elementary School in Atlanta. Curtis Compton ccompton@ajc.com

Challenges loom for Georgia’s presidential election after runoffs

Purge of about 300,000 voter registrations planned in Georgia

Purge of more than 300,000 voter registrations planned in Georgia

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