The Current has compiled resources to assist Coastal Georgia voters in making informed decisions. This content includes links to our nonpartisan election reporting and access to tools that voters can use to conduct their own research.
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Voting News, Information
How, where to vote early in Coastal Georgia
Know your options and where to go to vote as sites open for early voting.
How state political parties helped big money pay for this year’s elections
State parties played an unprecedented role in financing the presidential election this year, making it possible for the national political parties to raise eye-popping sums from individual donors — and keep more money than they might otherwise be allowed.
Fact check: Ad links Warnock to ‘Defunding the Police’
A conservative group’s deceptive TV ad suggests that Democrat Raphael Warnock supports defunding the police. He has said multiple times that he doesn’t.
Fact check: Perdue-Ossoff runoff ads start with distortions
In the first TV ads of the runoff campaign that could help decide the balance of the Senate, Republican Sen. David Perdue warned his opponent would “radically change America,” while Democratic challenger Jon Ossoff accused his opponent of downplaying the coronavirus.
Fact check: Loeffler-Warnock runoff starts with attack ads
About a week after Georgia’s special election headed to a runoff, Sen. Kelly Loeffler, a Republican, and Rev. Raphael Warnock, a Democrat, both launched questionable attacks that the other candidate has disputed.
Fact check: Ossoff’s ‘dirty money’ in Georgia’s senate runoff
Ad questions Ossoff’s ties to Chinese and Al Jazeera as well as money from outside political action groups.
Trump campaign started pressuring Georgia’s secretary of state long before election
The Republican secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger, rejected repeated demands to endorse Trump. As the official overseeing the voting, he believed he should remain neutral.
Chatham County’s hand recount audit nears finish line
Workers finish bulk of audit work leaving final data and adjudication
Follow the data: Track Georgia’s U.S. Senate runoff campaigns
See maps, charts from daily updated data for key races.
Big PACs line up to spend cash in U.S. Senate runoff
With two concurrent runoff elections that could swing the balance of the Senate, Georgia has become the center of the political universe, and a flurry of new super PACs are primed to join the action bringing huge spending to the two races.
Georgia’s high-stakes U.S. Senate race features pair of combo campaigns
Perdue, Loeffler take on duo of Warnock, Ossoff in partisan playoff as races draw political star power.
Georgia orders hand recount of presidential vote
Georgia’s recount has only one precedent: Chatham County. The hand count in the 2020 primaries ended with same winner.
Georgia GOP lawmakers draw the lines, political map is election spoils
While county election workers were still counting the votes in Georgia, the Republican State Leadership Committee declared victory in the state.
Group fights ‘rampant voter suppression’ ahead Of Ga. Senate runoffs
After six years and nearly half a million newly registered voters, the New Georgia Project has no plans to slow down now that the nation is watching Georgia’s Senate races head to a Jan. 5 runoff.
U.S. Senate: Both Georgia senate seats head for January runoff
Republican Sen. David Perdue’s lead over Democratic challenger Jon Ossoff has continued to dwindle as local election officials process ballots. But as of noon Friday, Perdue had fallen below the 50% plus one vote needed to win reelection outright.
Dropboxes, Poll Dates, Locations
Click here to find your nearest absentee ballot drop box or early voting location in your county.
Two Constitutional Amendments, One Statute on Georgia Ballot
Georgians heading to the polls next month will decide the fate of amendments to the state Constitution supporters have been pushing for years.
A ballot question is being pitched as a way to increase Georgia’s stock of affordable housing.
Who Pays for Campaigns?
CHATHAM COUNTY RACES: Search this online database to see individuals, groups funding local contests. Thanks to Transparent Savannah for the hard work to compile these lists.
STATE, NATIONAL RACES: Search our online database for people, PACs and other organizations that help fund area campaigns for state and federal offices.