Early in-person voting kicks off in Georgia on Tuesday as uncertainty over new election rules looms large in a state that will decide this year's presidential election.
A Georgia judge has declared that seven new election rules recently passed by the State Election Board are “illegal, unconstitutional and void.”
A judge on Wednesday stopped a controversial election board in Georgia from rolling out new rules for how ballots should be counted and handled, the latest courtroom setback for allies of former President Donald Trump.
The counties with the highest early voting turnout all voted for the same candidate in 2020. What does this mean for 2024?
A judge overturned changes to Georgia election rules made by a Republican-controlled state board in August, in a case brought by a conservative group which argued the changes would disrupt voting rights ahead of the Nov.
It's been two days since early voting polls opened in Georgia and half a million people have already cast their ballot, according to election data.
Early voting polling places at Atlanta were full of enthusiastic voters on the first two days of early voting.
At least 252,000 voters had cast ballots at early-voting sites as of 4 p.m. EDT (2000 GMT), nearly double the 136,000 who participated in the first day of early voting in the 2020 election, said Gabriel Sterling, Georgia's No. 2 election official. "Spectacular turnout," he wrote on social media.
More than 300,000 Georgians cast a ballot Tuesday for the November election, the first day of early voting, doubling the state’s day-one record. On Wednesday, there were no signs that the pace was slowing down. More than 88,000 votes had been cast as of 11:30 a.m. Wednesday, according to data from the crucial battleground state.
A warning by Supreme Court judge Brett Kavanaugh that hand-counting ballots can lead to "chaos and confusion" has been used by a Georgia judge to strike down a new election rule. Judge Robert McBurney appeared to choose Kavanaugh's words to counter any Republican challenge to the Supreme Court.
A judge in Georgia has struck down a slate of controversial new election rules passed by Donald Trump allies, including two that Democrats say would inject post-election “chaos” into the critical battleground state.