The GA Supreme Court ruled that despite receiving the absentee ballots late, voters had to either return them to the Cobb County Elections office by 7 p.m. on Election Day or vote in person.
The right wing of the Georgia State Election Board that champions rules favored by GOP supporters of President-elect Donald is set to get back to its agenda after court decisions thwarted past attempts to implement the changes before November.
CNN and NBC News have projected Trump will win the state. Now that Georgia has gone to Trump, Harris cannot win the presidential election without winning Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin. At the time networks called Georgia for Trump, Harris was behind in all three states.
Every county in Georgia has certified the results of the 2024 general election, a notable step after some Republican local election board members earlier this year declined to certify other results.
Democrats and Republicans in Georgia and across the country have fought for four years in the courts and in Washington, D.C. over changes to election rules enacted by the state’s GOP Legislature following the election of Joe Biden in 2020.
A federal judge ruled against Republicans in a challenge to Democratic strongholds in Georgia that opened locations over the weekend and Monday for voters to return their absentee ballots in
The Supreme Court declined Tuesday to let Mark Meadows move his Georgia election subversion case to federal court, effectively barring the former chief of staff during Donald Trump’s first term from claiming immunity from those charges.
Republicans kept Rep. Jan Jones of Milton as House Speaker Pro Tem and Rep. Chuck Efstration of Dacula as majority leader. Rep. James Burchett of Waycross will remain whip, while Rep. Houston Gaines of Athens will remain vice chair and Rep. Bruce Williamson III of Monroe will remain caucus chair.
Donald Trump's former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows has failed in his bid to move his Georgia 2020 election interference criminal case out of state court and into the potentially friendlier venue of federal court,
Mark Meadows had asked the justices to overturn a lower-court ruling rejecting his claims that the case should be moved out of state court in Georgia.
Mark Meadows argued the crimes he is accused of committing involved work that were part of his federal job at the White House.
Georgia is a key battleground state in the 2024 presidential election between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, with 16 electoral votes at stake.