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A proposal requiring Georgia poll workers to manually shuffle ballots to preserve voter secrecy failed to advance during a special meeting of the State Election Board on Thursday.

Jim Kingston, a candidate for Georgia’s 1st Congressional District, speaks at a campaign event in Brunswick on Sept. 29, 2026. Credit: Justin Taylor/The Current GA/CatchLight/Report for America As ...

ATLANTA — Attentive Georgia voters will notice something different when they go to their polling places on Election Day: pen and paper. Poll workers will log each voter in electronically, but they ...

Georgia’s preschoolers won’t be able to cast a vote this November, but the state’s youngest residents could play a role in deciding the state’s next governor, according to a new poll. Nearly 70% of ...

Georgia laws require independent candidates for non-statewide offices to collect signatures from five percent of voters.

Georgia's Promise Scholarship program saw participation increase to approximately 13,500 students for the 2026-2027 school ...

Liberty County officials are exploring the addition of a water storage tank east of I-95 to address fire suppression gaps in areas lacking municipal water lines.

Your trusted source for contextualizing the news. Sign up for our daily newsletter. Lacy Thibodeaux Fields was one of the lucky ones. Out of thousands of people who audition every year, she had been ...