WALB’s Jim Wallace sat down with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to see how security checks on voting machines have gone as preparations are already being made for future elections.
Election integrity will likely remain a controversial issue right through the 2024 election. Some experts believe Georgia’s dominion voting systems are vulnerable to hackers and need to be upgraded. But Georgia election officials disagree.
For nearly three years, Kemp pointed out, “anyone with evidence of fraud has failed to come forward — under oath — and prove anything in a court of law.”
By The Associated Press and Atlanta News First staff
A list of criminal charges in Georgia against former President Donald Trump briefly appeared Monday on a Fulton County website, but prosecutors said Trump had not been indicted in a long-running investigation of the 2020 presidential election.
Governor Brian Kemp recently signed Senate Bill 44 into law. Which adds a mandatory 10 years to prison sentences for anyone convicted of recruiting a minor into a gang.
Ahead of speaking to federal prosecutors about the 2020 presidential election, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensberger spoke to WALB’s Jim Wallace about stiffer election crime sentences.
Supporters call the bill ‘unapologetically aspirational," as legislators mark the one-year anniversary of the Dobbs ruling which ended protection for abortion under Roe versus Wade.
Senate Bill 222, which threatens local officials who violate the law with felony charges, still allows contributions to the state or federal government.
The bills, according to his office, “improve maternal health, increase access to healthcare services, and protect our healthcare heroes, among other advancements.”
Sec. Raffensperger has been answering Georgia election integrity issues since the 2020 election. But he’s trying now to focus on a more positive message – like why families should choose Georgia as a home.
With the recent passage of a bill to increase truck weight limits in Georgia, not all state and local officials are on board with the measure. WALB’s Jim Wallace spoke to a local official who rallied against the bill.
An effort to make more changes to Georgia's mental health system could stall in the closing days of the 2023 legislative session even though a Senate committee on Wednesday unveiled a rewritten bill that House sponsors and advocates found broadly acceptable.
More than 5 years ago, 17 families lost their children in a school shooting in Parkland, Florida. Now lawmakers in Georgia and across the country are supporting a bill named for one of the students who was killed.