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Ralston reviews the 2021 legislative sessionNews, State & National April 7, 2021 , by Lauren Souther ATLANTA – Speaker of the House David Ralston (R – 7) commented on the General Assembly’s accomplishments for the 2021 session. Starting off with the hottest issue of 2021, Ralston stated that he was “very pleased” with the Election Integrity Committee’s work. Chaired by Barry Fleming, they reviewed numerous bills submitted by Republicans and Democrats until the final version of SB 202 was passed. It added two optional Sunday voting days into Georgia law and added another mandatory ...

Ralston reviews the 2021 legislative sessionNews, State & National April 7, 2021 , by Lauren Souther ATLANTA – Speaker of the House David Ralston (R – 7) commented on the General Assembly’s accomplishments for the 2021 session. Starting off with the hottest issue of 2021, Ralston stated that he was “very pleased” with the Election Integrity Committee’s work. Chaired by Barry Fleming, they reviewed numerous bills submitted by Republicans and Democrats until the final version of SB 202 was passed. It added two optional Sunday voting days into Georgia law and added another mandatory ...

The Nation, check out our latest issue. Subscribe to Support Progressive Journalism The Nation is reader supported: Chip in $10 or more to help us continue to write about the issues that matter. Sign up for our Wine Club today. Did you know you can support The Nation by drinking wine? Attorney Poy Winichakul was about 12 minutes into her testimony before the Georgia legislature’s Special Committee on Election Integrity. She was summing up how 47 states using absentee ballots had never discovered “widespread fraud,” and how the same could be said of Georgia in the 2020 elections...

Primary Content Credit: David Zalubowski/AP Colorado sports fans will get an unexpected treat at the expense of Atlanta Braves fans this summer when Major League Baseball’s All-Star Game comes to Coors Field on July 13, the league officially announced on Tuesday. “This all moved very quickly,” Denver Mayor Michael Hancock said in a press conference Tuesday. “What usually takes months or even years to happen, happened in just a matter of days. But we are absolutely honored and thrilled.” The last-minute relocation comes days after MLB announced that it would pull the eve...

Georgia Recorder Republican lawmakers have cited Fulton County as a major reason they passed a law giving the state new power to take over problematic local election boards. Fulton County election workers sorted absentee ballots during a pilot audit after last June's primary. Stephen Fowler/GPB Critics worry that a new Georgia law giving the State Election Board the authority to control county election operations could be misused to try to influence the outcome of close elections. Georgia civil rights organizations are calling the local election takeover a troubling provision of the sweep...