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State law requires local election boards to certify election results, a Fulton County Superior Court Judge ruled Tuesday. Judge Robert McBurney rejected the assertions of Julie Adams, a member of ...
No candidate in the open election on November 3 received the 50% required by Georgia law to avoid a runoff, a type of election colloquially known as a "jungle primary" [1] —Warnock received just 32.9% of the vote—and so a runoff election between Warnock and Loeffler was held on January 5, 2021, which Warnock won with 51% of the vote.
Biden became the first Democratic presidential nominee to win the state since Bill Clinton in 1992; [128] the first to win any statewide election in Georgia since 2006; [129] the first to carry a state in the Deep South since Clinton won Louisiana in 1996; and the first to gain over 70% of the vote in Fulton County since Franklin D. Roosevelt ...
The state and national Democratic parties sued Monday to block two recent rules adopted by Georgia's State Election Board that could be used by county officials who want to refuse to certify an ...
The election board in Georgia's largest county voted on Tuesday to certify its May 21 election results, but not before one of the board's Republican-appointed members abstained. The abstention by ...
Fulton County Superior Court 23SC188947 (indictment) Ongoing A criminal case against Donald Trump and 18 co-defendants, alleging that Trump led a "criminal racketeering enterprise" in which he and all other defendants "knowingly and willfully joined a conspiracy to unlawfully change the outcome" of the 2020 U.S. presidential election in Georgia.
Raffensperger emerged as a major national figure in early January, 2021 when he faced significant pressure from then-President Donald Trump to overturn the 2020 presidential election in Georgia. Trump had been taped in a phone call asking Raffensperger to "find 11,780 votes," the exact number needed for Trump to carry the state. [ 1 ]
The board's conservative majority has also sought to reexamine the 2020 presidential election. It voted in May to reprimand Fulton County after finding that the state's largest county likely ...