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2024 Elections March 3, 2024

Qualifying begins Monday for candidates in the 2024 election

The qualifying period for non-presidential candidates in the 2024 election begins tomorrow: Monday March 4. The Cobb County Board of Elections and Registration issued a statement to clarify where candidates…

a screenshot of the six districts in Mableon, with 1,2,3 to the south, 4, 5, 6 to the north

Mableton January 13, 2024

Board of Commissioners approves election precinct name changes for Mableton

At last Tuesday’s Cobb County Board of Commissioners meeting, the election precinct name changes made necessary by the incorporation of Mableton into a city were approved as part of the…

Justice December 15, 2023

Civil and Voting Rights organizations celebrate judge’s ruling throwing out the Cobb school board map

In a news release distributed by the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Southern Coalition for Social Justice, a group of civil rights and voting rights organization celebrated the decision…

Screenshot of Cobb school board member Randy Scamihorn pointing his finger

Education November 12, 2023

Secrecy dominated Cobb school board redistricting process, court documents show

Screenshot: School board member Randy Scamihorn By Rebecca Gaunt Court documents show that Cobb County school board member Randy Scamihorn met with former Republican state representative Earl Ehrhart to discuss…

Side-by-side maps of the two alternative school board maps, the benchmark and the one that was enacted

Cobb County October 25, 2023

Groups file for injunction against ‘gerrymandered’ school board maps

by Rebecca Gaunt A coalition of voters and civil rights groups filed a motion for injunction Tuesday to prevent the use of an electoral map in the 2024 election that…

Cobb County October 10, 2023

Tate Fall approved as new Cobb elections director

[Photo from the Cobb County website] At Monday’s Cobb County Board of Elections and Registration meeting, the board unanimously approved Tate Fall as the new county elections director, replacing Janine…

Cobb County October 1, 2023

Cobb elections board to host town hall meeting Tuesday October 3

Free and fair elections should be the defining characteristic of American democracy, and all citizens need to play a role to make sure we live up to that ideal. An…

Cobb County September 9, 2023

Cobb Elections discovers 18 uncounted absentee ballots from two past elections

The Cobb County Board of Elections and Registration reported the discovery of 18 uncounted absentee ballots involving two elections. An internal investigation determined those ballots should have been counted but…

Cobb County September 4, 2023

Cobb Elections will celebrate National Voter Registration Day

In a democratic republic like the United States voting is not only a privilege, but a duty. In order to have a thriving democracy elected officials need to be held…

Elections July 18, 2023

Close to 100,000 Voter Registrations Were Challenged in Georgia — Almost All by Just Six Right-Wing Activists

This article by Doug Bock Clark originally appeared on the ProPublica website. On March 15, 2022, an email appeared in the inbox of the election director of Forsyth County, Georgia,…

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Cobb County November 22, 2024

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