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May 24, 2022; Athens, GA, USA; A voter gets a “I’m a Georgia Voter” sticker after voting at on Election Day in Athens, Ga., on Tuesday, May 24, 2022.
Georgia, officially the State of Georgia, is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States. It borders Tennessee to the northwest, North Carolina to the north, South Carolina to the northeast, the Atlantic Ocean to the southeast, Florida to the south, and Alabama to the west. Of the 50 United States, Georgia is the 24th-largest by ...
The state government of Georgia is the U.S. state governmental body established by the Georgia State Constitution. It is a republican form of government with three branches: the legislature, executive, and judiciary. Through a system of separation of powers or "checks and balances", each of these branches has some authority to act on its own ...
There have officially been 83 governors of the State of Georgia, including 11 who served more than one distinct term (John Houstoun, George Walton, Edward Telfair, George Mathews, Jared Irwin, David Brydie Mitchell, George Rockingham Gilmer, M. Hoke Smith, Joseph Mackey Brown, John M. Slaton and Eugene Talmadge, with Herman Talmadge serving two de facto distinct terms).
The Georgia state election board on Friday voted 3-2 to require counties to hand-count ballots in this November's election, a move that could drastically lengthen the amount of time to tally ...
Brad Raffensperger. Bradford Jay Raffensperger (born May 18, 1955) [1][2] is an American businessman, civil engineer, and politician serving as the Secretary of State of Georgia since 2019. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served in the Georgia House of Representatives, representing District 50.
Elections. The Democratic Party of Georgia (DPG) is the affiliate of the Democratic Party in the U.S. state of Georgia. It is one of the two major political parties in the state and is chaired by Nikema Williams. As of 2023, Democrats control both U.S. Senate seats, 5 out of Georgia's 14 U.S. House seats, and minorities in both houses of the ...
The office of the governor inside the Georgia state capitol building. Georgia was one of the original Thirteen Colonies and ratified the Constitution of the United States on January 2, 1788. [4] It seceded from the Union on January 19, 1861, [5] and was a founding member of the Confederate States of America on February 4, 1861. [6]