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Known as SB 222, the bill seeks to prohibit local election offices from using any kind of private funding to conduct elections.

At a special called meeting on March 1, three members of the Board of Voter Registration and Elections had criticisms for the flurry of legislation past and present coming from the state legislature aimed at changing how counties conduct elections and how departments can be funded. 

A committee in the Georgia Senate passed a bill that seeks to prohibit election offices from using private funding to conduct elections.

DeKalb County is one of the most heavily Democrat counties in metro Atlanta. For perspective, this is the county that is largely responsible for sending Cynthia “I Hate Israel” McKinney an...

An election integrity group is calling on Georgia election officials to investigate a donation from a Zuckerberg-linked group that they believe violates state law.

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DeKalb County, Georgia, recently announced it had received a $2 million grant from the U.S. Alliance for Election Excellence.

Kelly Loeffler, the former Republican senator from Georgia and current chair of Greater Georgia, recently called for an investigation into a grant received by the DeKalb Voter Registration and Elections office.

The same group that doled out Zuckerberg-originating election grants in 2020 is targeting Georgia again for 2024.

Georgia law bars election offices from accepting private money directly, but one of the state’s largest counties is taking funds indirectly.