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Georgia House Subcommittee Quietly Considers Elections Legislation
Tuesday, without much public notice, the Redistricting & Elections Subcommittee of the House Committee on Governmental Affairs held a hearing on elections-related legislation.
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Georgia Grassroots Organizations Call for Improved Public Access to Legislative Process
“Georgians shouldn’t have to hire a lobbyist to be able to participate in our government.”
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Common Cause Georgia Strongly Criticizes the Athens-Clark County Redistricting Process and Proposed Maps
“We have long supported redistricting at every level of our government that is fair, transparent, and protects the needs of communities who have been historically sidelined by those in power. Unfortunately, what we are seeing in Athens-Clarke County violates every single one of these principles,” said Aunna Dennis, executive director of Common Cause Georgia.
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Competing Media Events Provide Opportunity to Contrast Positions on ‘Government By The People’
We hope that, during today’s press conference, the media will ask Governor Kemp and Attorney General Carr some pointed questions.
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SPLC, Georgia Voters and Voting Rights Groups Challenge Georgia’s Racially-Gerrymandered Congressional Districts
Voting rights groups and Georgia voters filed a lawsuit in federal court today charging that the 6th, 13th, and 14th Congressional Districts of Georgia violate the Constitution and unlawfully diminish the voting power of voters of color.
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Georgia State Legislature Approves Extremely Gerrymandered Congressional Maps
"When the redistricting process is led by the politicians, the maps will be drawn to benefit the politicians—and that’s exactly what state legislators have done today."
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Common Cause Georgia Proposes Anti-Pay-to-Play Ordinance for Atlanta
The nonpartisan organization has drafted a proposed ordinance that would prohibit campaign donor relationships between municipal vendors and the elected officials who make contracting decisions. Companies that have made campaign contributions to relevant municipal officials would no longer be eligible to hold or bid on city contracts.
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Legislators Propose Wholesale Remake of Gwinnett County Government
Last-minute legislation would completely reconfigure Board of Commissioners and Board of Education for one of the country’s most-diverse counties.
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TODAY: Georgia General Assembly to Hold Redistricting Hearing on Draft Maps
The members of the state’s Reapportionment and Redistricting Committee are convening for a meeting on their proposed district maps that will be live streamed this afternoon at 1:00 p.m. The meeting is the first and only opportunity for the public to provide testimony on draft maps before they are signed into law for the next ten years.
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Georgia General Assembly Releases State House Maps
Today, the Georgia General Assembly released their official proposed draft of the Georgia House of Representatives voting map. Earlier this year, grassroots groups called for greater transparency in the Legislature’s process of drawing district lines. Groups have also urged that Georgia’s Open Meeting Act be amended to cover the General Assembly.
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U.S. Census Bureau Releases New Format of Data for a More Participatory Redistricting Process
Today, the U.S. Census Bureau will release population data from the 2020 Census in an easy-to-use format for Americans who want to advocate for fair maps in this year’s redistricting cycle. The new format of the data will be made available to all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico and will be key to increasing participation in the ongoing redistricting efforts.
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Election Review Panel should ‘respect the work of the community members who risked their lives to ensure Fulton County had free and fair elections’
One of the reasons why so many Americans continue to have faith in our elections is because they are administered at the local level - by members of our communities.