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Ballot QR code bill headed to governor after Georgia lawmakers scale back hand-counting requirement June 23, 2026
Georgia lawmakers dialed back a controversial change that would have mandated hand recounts of the two top-ticket races in every election before local officials could certify the results. The hand-count provision was added by Senate Republicans over the weekend to a measure extending the state’s self-imposed deadline to stop using ballot QR codes to tally […]
Maya Homan
GOP lawmakers save Kemp from rare threat of a veto override June 22, 2026
Georgia Republicans on Monday blocked a Democratic attempt to push for what would have been the first vote to override a veto from Gov. Brian Kemp. Atlanta Democratic state Rep. Stacey Evans called on her colleagues to override one of Kemp’s vetoes on a Republican-sponsored bill. The bill, which passed unanimously out of both chambers […]
Alander Rocha
Georgia is losing farmland fast. A new state program aims to help save it June 22, 2026
This coverage is made possible through a partnership between WABE and Grist, a nonprofit environmental media organization. Russ Moon grows corn, soybeans and strawberries and raises cattle on his family farm in Madison County, Georgia, outside of Athens. His family has worked that land for four generations, around 100 years. And he said he wants […]
Emily Jones, WABE/Grist