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.
Local officials are beginning to certify the results of this year’s presidential election in a process that, so far, has been playing out quietly, in stark contrast to the tumultuous certification period four years ago that followed then-President Donald Trump’s loss.
Georgia House Republicans decided Tuesday to keep their leadership team for the next two years. At the gathering inside the state Capitol, Republicans renominated Jon Burns of Newington Tuesday as speaker,
Former President Donald Trump has flipped a Georgia county red for the first time in 20 years after Democrats saw their margin shrink. Rural Baldwin County was one of at least three swing counties in the battleground state of Georgia that could have gone for either candidate.
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.
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.
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.
View live results of the Georgia presidential election. See maps of county-by-county presidential election results in the race between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris.
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.
Trump’s former White House chief of staff sought to move his state charges in the 2020 election-related case to federal court.