A Tuesday runoff election for Atlanta City Council is set to continue, after a judge OK’d Fulton’s election administration and the candidacy of Antonio Brown.
Atlanta’s going to get a freshman city council member from the Westside’s district 3, in a special election runoff. Some of the votes will depend on what people think of candidates who have — and who haven’t — been in office.
Nine people are looking to join Atlanta City Council, in a west side special election to fill the seat of the late Councilman Ivory Lee Young Jr.
Atlanta’s west side district 3 will send a new representative to City Council in a March special election. Matthew Cardinale is making a run for it.
It’s no secret Atlanta is a blue dot in a red sea, but a quick look at a map shows why changing the size of that dot just a little bit can swing elections.
There are only two statewide races on the Dec. 4 runoff ballot, but the election schedule is tighter than it was for the long general election.
Georgia is among six states in which voters in the Nov. 6 election approved ballot measures to address housing affordability. Groups to benefit include the mentally disabled, including a program in metro Atlanta that’s supported by former First Lady Rosalynn Carter, veterans and, in California, farm workers.
The day after Election Day, an email arrived in my inbox. Entitled “Victory Breakfast,” it came from the Gwinnett Democrats. Things have changed, but not everything has changed.
SaportaReport is on the scene Tuesday night at the campaign headquarters of Republican Brian Kemp in Athens and Democrat Stacey Abrams at the Hyatt Regency Atlanta.
Maggie Lee is in Athens. Maria Saporta in Atlanta.
Stay tuned….
The candidates who are running to replace outgoing Republican Gov. Nathan Deal are splitting on what’s probably the incumbent’s marquee policy: changes to the criminal justice system that have driven down the state’s prison population.
At the foot of your midterm ballot, there are going to be some referendum questions. Here’s what they mean.
What if every election day folks voted more than once — legally — ranking candidates from first to last? Or what if folks who weren’t registered at all showed up on Election Day and got a ballot?
Pop quiz time — on some of the issues and offices at stake in Georgia elections this year.
After both parties (mostly) picked their candidate teams this week, Democrats were quick to make a pitch as the party of jobs in a business-friendly Georgia. And Republicans talked about jobs too, but the GOP kicked off its unified campaigning with a rally heavy on conservative values.
President Donald Trump made an endorsement that may prove pivotal in a tight race: Republican Georgia gubernatorial hopeful Brian Kemp has his support.
In a tight Republican runoff in the race to succeed him, a popular Gov. Nathan Deal says that the candidate to continue his own tradition is Casey Cagle.
Georgia’s majority-Republican legislature has warmed to mass transit funding in metro Atlanta and other areas — a bit. Some of the GOP contenders for top office are more on board with the trend than others.
Georgians have been promised a look at least one gubernatorial candidate’s tax returns, maybe two. But while challenging one’s opponents to publish their taxes is becoming a campaign-season standard, it’s not part of the law.
We can’t tell you how your neighbor voted, but we can tell how each Fulton County precinct voted in the gubernatorial primary.
As the day of the primary election gets closer, Georgia’s Republican gubernatorial hopefuls are looking to grab the attention of people headed to the ballot boxes. The candidates are talking a lot about illegal immigration.
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