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Though the county unit system had informally been used since 1898, it was formally enacted by the Neill Primary Act of 1917. The system was ostensibly designed to function similarly to the Electoral College, and so in practice the large ratio of unit votes for small, rural counties to unit votes for more populous urban areas provided outsized political influence to the smaller counties.
In Stephen King's The Green Mile, John Coffey is wrongfully arrested in the fictional Trapingus County, Georgia. John Birmingham includes a fictional Buttecracke (pronounced Beau-cray) County, Georgia, in his Dave vs. the Monsters series of novels. We Deserve Monuments, by Jas Hammonds, takes place in the fictional Bardell County, Georgia.
The Court heard the oral arguments on December 2, 2019. [7] The case, Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, Inc., decided the question: Whether the government edicts doctrine extends to – and thus renders uncopyrightable – works that lack the force of law, such as the annotations in the Official Code of Georgia Annotated. [8]
The court proceedings took place amidst growing, bipartisan concern about new rules from the Georgia State Election Board that increase local officials' powers and responsibilities before the mid ...
County election boards in Georgia are not allowed to refuse to certify election results, a state judge ruled on Tuesday. Concerns of fraud or abuse are to be settled in court, the judge said, not ...
The Constitution of Georgia is the foremost source of state law. Legislation is enacted by the Georgia General Assembly, published in the Georgia Laws, and codified in the Official Code of Georgia Annotated (O.C.G.A.). State agencies promulgate regulations (sometimes called administrative law) which are codified in the Rules and Regulations of ...
For the second time in two days, Georgia judges delivered a major blow to efforts by the state's election board to change the rules governing this November's election just weeks in advance.. In a ...
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 ...