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Georgia investigating 'potential double voting' in primary | The Atlanta Voice

Georgia’s top elections official said Tuesday that his office has identified about 1,000 cases of “potential double voting” in the June primary election — a felony he’s determined to see prosecuted. These voters submitted absentee ballots but also voted in person, a problem that happened across 100 Georgia counties, and election officials didn’t catch them in time to keep the […]

Source: The Atlanta Voice

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The fight for the 2020 vote and the march to the ballot box | The Mississippi Link

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