Ninety-five of eligible Georgia citizens are now registered to vote, according to federal election data.
The Peach State now has one of the highest voter registration rates in the nation. However, it still lags behind states like Maine, New Hampshire and Illinois.
Back in 2016, Georgia began allowing residents to automatically register to vote upon receiving their driver’s licenses.
Since then, the number of registered Georgia voters has increased. In fact, about 67% of new voter registrations came from the automatic voter registration program.
Subscribe to our free weekly newsletter!
A week of political news in your in-box.
We find the news you need to know, so you don't have to.
Groups like Stacey Abrams’ New Georgia Project has helped register thousands of previously unregistered voters.
According to the U.S. Election Assistance Commission’s biennial report, there are only around 387,000 unregistered voters in Georgia. Of those many are ineligible to begin with because of felony convictions.
Around 265,000 Georgians are currently ineligible to vote because they were formerly incarcerated, according to Reform Georgia, a criminal justice organization.
Last week, President Joe Biden announced that he would pardon 39 people and commute the prison sentences…
Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) condemned his fellow Republican lawmakers during a rant on the House floor after…
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/_kYWlyzuiMk Rep. Mike Waltz did 44 pushups to honor a bet after the Army football…
In a series of X posts on Wednesday, the platform's CEO Elon Musk criticized a bipartisan spending…
"You can't love your country only when you win." President Joe Biden has repeated this phrase to…
Rep. Susan Wild (D-Pennsylvania), the top Democrat on the House Ethics Committee, missed a committee meeting after…