Monday, Democrat Alan Powell, Independent Rusty Kidd and Republican Mark Hatfield introduced a ballot access bill that would completely eliminate the need for independent or third party candidates to gather signatures in order to appear on the ballot.
The summary of House Bill 1257 reads as follows:
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter [...]
Tuesday was election day in House District 19. Voters in the Paulding County-based district went to the polls to elect a new state representative to fill the unexpired term of former House Speaker Glenn Richardson.
Richardson resigned after it was revealed that he had an affair with a lobbyist while pushing legislation beneficial to the [...]
Wednesday, a group of legislators in the Georgia House introduced a bill that would replace touch screen voting with paper ballots for future elections.
The legislation known as House Bill 1215 is co-sponsored by Republicans Timothy Bearden, Bobby Franklin, Austin Scott and Barry Loudermilk. Democrat Karla Drenner is also listed as a sponsor of the [...]
Secretary of State Brian Kemp issued a press release this morning lending his endorsement to legislation (SB 406) that would give Georgians the ability to register to vote securely online:
Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp today announced his support of legislation that will implement a secure online voter registration system for Georgia citizens. The system [...]
O.C.G.A. 21-2-285(c): In a general election, the names of candidates who are nominees of a political party shall be placed under the name of their party. The columns of political parties shall be printed on the ballot, beginning on the left side thereof, and shall be arranged from left to right in the [...]
For those of you who don’t know, Georgia has some of the most restrictive ballot access laws in the United States. According to Ballot Access News, the laws were passed in 1943 to keep the Communist Party off the ballot.
According to Georgia Code (§ 21-2-170), in order to get on the ballot a candidate must [...]
In case you missed it, Tuesday was election day for voters in the 22nd state Senate district.
Former state Representative Hardie Davis faced off against Harold Jones in the run-off election for the state Senate seat once held by Ed Tarver who resigned last year to become U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Georgia.
The Augusta [...]
Voters in Georgia living in municipalities, five state House districts and two state Senate districts will head to the polls today to decide on representation for the next term years.
We’ll be live-blogging races with national implications tonight over at United Liberty, such as gubernatorial races in New Jersey and Virginia, as well as [...]