Georgia | October 21, 2021
RNC, Paris Dennard Open Black American Engagement Center in College Park
Georgia | October 21, 2021
Building on what they call “positive gains made with Black voters,” the Republican National Committee is opening a Black American Engagement Center outside Atlanta in College Park, Ga. The RNC insists that it is serious about engaging in strategic and sustained Black voter engagement.
RNC National Spokesperson and Director of Black Media Affairs, Paris Dennard, said the re-opening of party offices branded as “community centers” is a sign of that commitment. “We use the summit centers as an opportunity for us to do specific sustained engagement,” he explained. “This Wednesday, we’ll be in College Park re-opening. And I use the term re-opening because while we are in different locations, this is not just the first time we’ve been present.” Dennard explained the party had a Black outreach center in Mableton and attends to open many more around the nation. The Republican party opened a similar center earlier this year in Cleveland. McClatchy previously reported the leases on the prior centers expired at the end of the 2020 election cycle. Dennard said the party’s engagement will run through the 2022 midterm cycle. He also noted that the party recently opened a center to engage Asian and Pacific Islander voters in Georgia. According to Dennard, these centers serve as a place for potential voters to gather, engage and connect with the party.
“We know that there are Black Republicans, and we are not a monolith when it comes to our vote bloc,” he said. “And so we use it as a place where people could come and get information.”… (Excerpts from the Atlanta Daily World)
Georgia, Kentucky | October 14, 2021
Democrats fret as longshot candidates pull money, attention
Georgia, Kentucky | October 14, 2021
Longshot challengers to Democrats’ most reviled Republican foes are starting to be seen as threats by some in their own party who fear they are distracting from midterm efforts to protect the majority. Just over a year out from what will be a referendum on President Biden’s first two years in office, Democratic strategists are expressing frustration that a handful of candidates looking to oust some of the GOP’s most high-profile incumbents – Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) among them – in deep red areas are using valuable resources that could otherwise be used to strengthen the party’s hand in more competitive races…. (Excerpts from The Hill)
Georgia | September 16, 2021
Newt Gingrich: GOP will win in 2022 by targeting Democrats as ‘big government socialists’
Georgia | September 16, 2021
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Wednesday that Republicans can’t afford to blow a once-in-a-generation campaign opportunity to tag all congressional Democrats as “big government socialists” by supporting President Biden’s $3.5 trillion social welfare spending package.
“To have an issue of this size involving $3½ trillion in spending and about $3 trillion in taxes, and to have every single Democrat having voted lockstep in favor of it, gives you a weight of argument unlike anything I’ve seen in recent years,” Mr. Gingrich said in an interview with The Washington Times… (Excerpts from the Washington Times)
Georgia, Iowa | September 8, 2021
Trump announces rallies in Georgia, Iowa as 2024 speculation mounts
Georgia, Iowa | September 8, 2021
Former President Donald Trump will hold two more campaign-style rallies in the coming weeks — one in Georgia and one in Iowa — as speculation continues to grow that he will make yet another run for the White House in 2024. Trump’s Save America PAC announced Tuesday night that the 45th president will hold a rally in Perry, Ga., approximately 100 miles south of Atlanta, on Sept. 25. A few minutes later, the organization announced that Trump would speak in Des Moines, Iowa on Oct. 9. The events will be the fourth and fifth rallies Trump has held since leaving office in January. He previously drew crowds in Ohio, Florida and Alabama. Trump’s visit to Georgia will mark his first appearance there since Republicans lost both of the state’s US Senate seats in a pair of special elections in January, handing Democrats full control of Congress and the White House…(Excerpts from the New York Post)
Georgia | August 30, 2021
43,000 Absentee Ballot Votes Counted in DeKalb County 2020 Election Violated Chain of Custody Rule
Georgia | August 30, 2021
43,907 of the 61,731 absentee ballots deposited in drop boxes in the November 2020 presidential election in DeKalb County, Georgia–72 percent–were counted in official tallies certified by the county and the state, despite violating chain of custody requirements set forward in Georgia Emergency Rule 183-1-14-1.8-.14 promulgated by the Georgia State Election Board at its July 1, 2020, meeting.
That rule states absentee ballots placed in drop boxes, “shall be immediately transported to the county registrar” by the two person collection team, which is required to sign a ballot transfer form indicating the number of ballots picked up, the time the ballots were picked up, and the location of the drop box, and that, “The county registrar or a designee thereof shall sign the ballot transfer form upon receipt of the ballots from the collection team.”
The Georgia Star News obtained 725 absentee ballot drop box transfer forms used in the November 2020 election in DeKalb County to document the chain of custody of the 61,731 absentee ballots deposited in drop boxes from the DeKalb County law department in response to an open records request.
Those 725 absentee ballot drop box transfer forms can be viewed here.
Of the 61,731 absentee ballots DeKalb County recorded as being deposited into drop boxes during the November 2020 election, 46 percent – or 28,194 of the absentee ballots – were not documented as being received by the elections registrar or the director’s designee until the day after they were collected from the drop box.
The range in which absentee ballots were collected from drop boxes in DeKalb County and documented as received by the registrar the next day was between 13 and 22 hours, or nearly a full day later….(Excerpts from the Georgia Star News)
Georgia | August 18, 2021
Ken Blackwell: Election Integrity Reform Is Key to Preventing A Socialist Takeover of America
Georgia | August 18, 2021
How much can lack of election integrity cost you? It’s $4 trillion and rising, and it’s all that stands between you and the socialist takeover of America. Unsecure elections are the gateway to socialism.
Setting aside controversies over the presidential race, post-election audits in Georgia show that at minimum Republican David Purdue should not have lost his Senate race, with ultra-left Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) ultimately won by a fraction of a point.
Perdue won in November, but with 49.73 percent in a three-way race. But in Georgia, a candidate must break 50 percent to win outright. Otherwise it goes to a runoff election. A libertarian acted as a spoiler in the race, garnering 2.3 percent. It was a safe bet that those votes would flow to Perdue and he would keep that seat in Republican hands.
But with all the shenanigans surrounding the vote in Georgia, several activists told the Republican base that Georgia’s elections are rigged and so their vote would not count. They were given high profile treatment and huge platforms, GOP base turnout predictably dropped, and Ossoff managed to grab the seat in the January runoff. Between Ossoff and Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA), now center-right Georgia is represented by two hardline socialist Democrats in the U.S. Senate…. (Excerpts from Black Community News)