Georgia
Georgia’s Indictments Against Trump and Allies Prove There Are Consequences to Trying to Overturn Elections
August 15, 2023 Washington, D.C. – All Voting is Local Executive Director Hannah Fried issued the following statement in response to the indictments of former President Donald Trump and his allies by a Georgia grand jury investigating their effort to overturn the 2020 election results: “Georgia has reminded the country…
Hand Counting Ballots in Spalding County, Georgia Will Only Fuel Conspiracy Theories
August 8, 2023 ATLANTA — In response to the Spalding County Board of Elections and Voter Registration’s plans to hand count ballots and employ the use of machine tabulation for future elections, All Voting is Local Georgia Campaign Manager Lana Goitia-Paz issued the following statement: “Spalding County has caved to…
Georgia’s SB 202 Continues to Confuse Poll Workers and Disenfranchise Voters
November 15, 2022 ATLANTA — All Voting is Local Georgia State Director Kristin Nabers issued the following statement in response to Gwinnett County voters who needlessly had their provisional ballots rejected: “Today, we learned that 48 would-be – and should-be – Gwinnett County voters had their properly cast out-of-precinct provisional…
Georgia’s Renewed Anti-Voting Legislation Perpetuates the Big Lie
ATLANTA — All Voting is Local Georgia State Campaign Manager Lana Goitia Paz issued the following statement in response to the Georgia legislature passing Senate Bill 441, which expands the powers of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation to look into election-related cases:
Georgia’s Latest Anti-Voter Legislation is Another Attempt to Sabotage Elections
ATLANTA — All Voting is Local Georgia State Director Kristin Nabers issued the following statement in response to House Bill 1464, a wide-ranging anti-voter bill introduced Wednesday that would allow for more sham election reviews, cut grant funding that is necessary to run elections well, and give Georgia’s Bureau of Investigation the power to investigate elections:
AP: Georgia governor: Loss of All-Star game will hurt minorities
Critics say it’s the voting law that’s political and will disproportionately affect communities of color. Kemp’s news conference was trying to deflect from that, as the governor gears up for next year’s election to try to win a second term, said Aklima Khondoker, state director of the voting rights group, All Voting is Local. “He’s pivoting away from all of the malicious things that we understand that this bill represents to people of color in Georgia,” she said.