The GA Supreme Court ruled that despite receiving the absentee ballots late, voters had to either return them to the Cobb County Elections office by 7 p.m. on Election Day or vote in person.
Republicans kept Rep. Jan Jones of Milton as House Speaker Pro Tem and Rep. Chuck Efstration of Dacula as majority leader. Rep. James Burchett of Waycross will remain whip, while Rep. Houston Gaines of Athens will remain vice chair and Rep. Bruce Williamson III of Monroe will remain caucus chair.
CNN and NBC News have projected Trump will win the state. Now that Georgia has gone to Trump, Harris cannot win the presidential election without winning Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin. At the time networks called Georgia for Trump, Harris was behind in all three states.
Georgia is a key battleground state in the 2024 presidential election between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, with 16 electoral votes at stake.
Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows was charged with two counts in the case brought by Fulton County prosecutors over alleged efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election in Georgia.
With the victory, Trump nets 16 electoral votes in the state that was the focal point in his efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
A federal judge ruled against Republicans in a challenge to Democratic strongholds in Georgia that opened locations over the weekend and Monday for voters to return their absentee ballots in
Georgia Supreme Court ruled that ballots in Cobb County will only be counted if they are received by 7 p.m. Nov. 5 after election officials mailed absentee ballots late.
The US Supreme Court refused to shift the Georgia election-interference prosecution of former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows into federal court, rejecting an appeal from the onetime top aide to Donald Trump.
Take a closer look at how each county voted in this year’s presidential election, and how Georgia’s partisan margins are changing.
Late Tuesday night, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, R, said at a press conference that "Donald Trump has an insurmountable lead with the number of votes outstanding." "It looks like this is pretty much done," he said. "I think the results are pretty well baked in."