The Gist Despite all 236 members of the state House and Senate up for reelection in November, the presidential race has taken center stage in Georgia with the nomination of Vice President Kamala Harris for U.S. president. Nonetheless, Georgia Democrats  will be in a push-and-pull contest to gain more seats in both the House and …

If you plan to hand-deliver your absentee ballot to your local election office this year, you’ll have to show identification and sign a form stating whose ballot you’re dropping off, under a new rule recently passed by the State Election Board. If you fail to show your ID or don’t complete the form, your ballot …

In 1964, Georgia lawmakers retooled the state’s election process  to create a “one person, one vote” system after the U.S. Supreme Court outlawed the “county unit system” that held sway over Peach State politics for nearly half a century. Until then, politicians hoping  to win primaries in Georgia had to capture entire counties, not just …

Atlanta city officials need to give the Atlanta Detention Center to Fulton County to ease overcrowding in the county’s violence-prone jail, a bipartisan panel of state lawmakers said in its final report, released Friday. “A big part of the solution is that the City of Atlanta needs to turn over the Atlanta Detention Center to …