The process of redrawing Georgia’s political districts opened Wednesday with the Republican-controlled Georgia Senate proposing a map that would help them retain control. Thirty-four Republicans and 22 Democrats currently sit in the Georgia State Senate, ...

A day after his staff oversaw a trouble-free municipal election, the head of Fulton County’s elections operations announced he will leave at the end of the year. Rick Barron notified county officials Wednesday afternoon that ...

A coalition of civil rights groups joined the redistricting fray last week with its own proposed set of political maps. The Unity maps were done to give lawmakers an example of new district maps that reflect ...

Atlanta clinched the World Series, but don’t put away the popcorn just yet: Today’s opening round of Georgia’s special legislative session on redistricting promises to be suspenseful. The once-a-decade session begins at 1 p.m. and ...

A coalition of civil rights groups unveiled maps for new political districts Friday that it says create a more fair and equitable representation of Georgia’s increasingly diverse population. The coalition’s Georgia Unity Redistricting plan comes ...

The Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation announced today it is giving $10 million in grants to a dozen civil and voting rights advocacy groups. Each of the 12 groups is working to ensure eligible Americans can ...

With nine days left before Georgia lawmakers start redrawing political boundaries, redistricting activists are making one last informational go-round this week about the once-a-decade political task. Redistricting, the process of drawing electoral district boundaries, is ...

Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr is part of a national group of attorneys general calling the federal government’s crackdown on harassment of school officials an unlawful infringement of parental free speech. The move comes as ...

A new voter protection group has teamed with the Democratic Party to finance year-round staff in the battleground states of Georgia, Arizona, Florida, North Carolina, and Texas. Power The Vote will start with six paid ...

Some of metro Atlanta’s top lawmakers gathered with constituents this week to discuss the arrival of Georgia’s long-awaited redistricting season. The pandemic and delays in census data already has this redistricting season running months behind ...

Growing up, King Walker, a high school senior from Bankhead, knew about presidential elections, but he knew little, if anything, about local elections. “Nobody taught me really about voting and democracy,” the Booker T. Washington ...

In July 2020, at the height of the pandemic, gamers gathered for an epic online competition of the popular video game Fortnight. Not only was the virtual event a chance to watch the best gamers in ...

A judge dismissed a lawsuit Wednesday seeking further inspection of alleged fraudulent absentee ballots cast in Fulton County during last year’s presidential election. Henry County Superior Court Chief Judge Brian Amero’s decision came after Georgia ...

Dunwoody voter Vasu Abhiraman has cast most of his ballots in the 6th Congressional District, a collection of north Atlanta suburbs. Yet, under a new congressional district map proposed last week by Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan ...

Voter suppression comes in many forms. It can be as subtle as preventing a blind man from being able to verify his vote. Or, as some critics contend, as flagrant as passing laws that affect millions ...

U.S elections are secure, but recent partisan-fueled efforts to overhaul the process are undermining years of voting and civil rights progress. That’s the consensus of national experts who gathered Thursday to talk about election security. ...

A proposed draft of a new congressional map introduced this week by two top Georgia Republican lawmakers blindsided redistricting activists and politicians, many of whom only learned about the proposal on social media. Lt. Gov. ...

Georgia’s two public broadcasting stations will air a new documentary tonight on the nation’s 39th president Jimmy Carter. The ”In Their Own Words” series, airing at 8 p.m., is said to be one of the more ...

The redistricting season officially opens in Georgia in November, the day after Georgians go to the polls to cast ballots in some 1,600 municipal elections. Gov. Brian Kemp signed a proclamation late Thursday to convene a special ...

The 2021 redistricting cycle has begun in earnest. The nation’s exhaustive and often divisive task of reshaping political lines officially began this week. On Monday, the Texas legislature formally convened its special session to redraw ...