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Elections October 26, 2024

Georgia GOP secretary of state reports audit found 20 noncitizens registered to vote out of 8.2M

by Stanley Dunlap, Georgia Recorder [This article first appeared in the Georgia Recorder, republished with permission] October 23, 2024 Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger announced Wednesday that an audit…

Climate and Weather October 24, 2024

Florida and North Carolina are making it easier for people to vote after the hurricanes – but some risks remain

by Michael T. Morley, Florida State University, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] Polls opened in North Carolina on Oct. 17, 2024, as about 14,000 people…

Elections March 8, 2024

UPDATED: GA Sec of State office mails incorrect voter ID cards to Cobb; particularly for Mableton precincts

[UPDATE and CORRECTION: Robert Skinner of the Georgia Secretary of State’s office sent the following to the Courier via email: “Our office does not mail precinct cards to voters. This…

Elections August 8, 2023

Re-imagining democracy for the 21st century, possibly without the trappings of the 18th century

by Bruce Schneier, Harvard Kennedy School, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] Imagine that we’ve all – all of us, all of society – landed on…

Elections April 18, 2023

U.S. elections official takes part in secretive GOP conference, sparking backlash

by Zachary Roth, Georgia Recorder [This article first appeared in the Georgia Recorder, republished with permission] April 16, 2023 A commissioner of a federal elections agency recently spoke at a…

line rounds the corner and stretches around three sides of the building at South Cobb Regional library voting site

2020 Elections October 21, 2020

153,672 have voted in Cobb County so far

The Cobb County government posted the unofficial vote totals so far in advance in-person voting and absentee ballots for the 2020 general election this morning. The numbers reflect advance voting…

Quill pan and ink in article about absentee ballots

Letters to the Editor August 4, 2020

Letter to the Editor: Republican elected officials put politics above safety and well-being of citizens

[Letters to the editor do not necessarily express the views of the Courier. We might agree with them, we might disagree, but they are the opinion of the person submitting…

Line at Lindley Middle School voting site (photo by Larry Felton Johnson)

2020 Elections, From the Editor June 9, 2020

Line at the Lindley Middle School voting site

Lindley Middle School in Mableton has been my voting site for well over a decade, and never have I had to stand in line, even during the 2016 election. Lindley…

green checkmark in a circle voting symbol. Used in article about municipal elections

2020 Elections October 31, 2019

More than 22,000 Cobb-registered voters on state’s list for purging

The Georgia Secretary of State released the list of registered voters in danger of losing their voting rights for the upcoming elections, and of the list of over 313,000 registered…

Chattahoochee RiverLands December 30, 2024

Don’t bury the lede: an episode from Chattahoochee River history

[This an evergreen article that we periodically republish as our readership grows, often with added materials from the Georgia Historic Newspapers database and website housed at the University of Georgia…

Science and Technology December 30, 2024

An AI system has reached human level on a test for ‘general intelligence’. Here’s what that means

by Michael Timothy Bennett, Australian National University and Elija Perrier, Stanford University, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] A new artificial intelligence (AI) model has just…

Business December 30, 2024

Retailers that make it harder to return stuff face backlash from their customers

by Huseyn Abdulla, University of Tennessee, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] In 2018, L.L. Bean ended its century-old “lifetime” return policy, limiting returns to one…

Science and Technology December 30, 2024

Language AIs in 2024: Size, guardrails and steps toward AI agents

by John Licato, University of South Florida, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] I research the intersection of artificial intelligence, natural language processing and human reasoning…

Opinion December 30, 2024

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