CENTERVILLE, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - Robert Bird and Debbie Taylor will meet in a runoff election for the vacant Post 1 City Council seat. Bird received 42.36% of the vote in Tuesday's special election, while Taylor received 32.16%. The other candidate,…
CENTERVILLE, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — A special election will be held Tuesday to fill Centerville's vacant Post 1 Council seat. The council seat has been vacant since…
ATLANTA (AP) — Officials say an alarm linked to a motion sensor inside a warehouse in Atlanta where ballots from last year’s election are stored went off over the weekend but the ballots remained secure. Fulton County Sheriff Patrick Labat…
The search is on for a new person to run elections in Georgia.
Georgia Republicans say Senate Bill 202 will make elections safer, but Democrats, including minority leader James Beverly, disagree.
WARNER ROBINS, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT)— The city of Warner Robins's new city councilperson was sworn in Monday. Derek Mack was elected in a special election on March 16. Mack says the first thing he wants to address is…
According to Raffesperger, the bill will create secure voting for all.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) -- Georgia Senate Bill 202 has been signed into law, making changes to elections moving forward. The 95-page bill included details about election issues the state has experienced in the last few years and…
Houston County voters have chosen to extend the county's Education Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax, or E-SPLOST, for five more years.
WARNER ROBINS, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — The special election for Warner Robins City Council Post 1 is almost over. We spoke with several of the candidates to find out their plans for the city. Derek Mack Derek Mack says if he's…
PERRY, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — Early voting is now over in Houston County for both the ESPLOST and the Warner Robins City Council special election. Now, voters can only cast a ballot on Election Day. As of Friday morning: 2,643 people…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT)— The Georgia State Senate passed SB 67 last week. It requires voters to enter a driver's license number or a personal identification number when requesting an absentee ballot. If the voter doesn't have one…
Republican lawmakers in Georgia have muscled legislation through the state House that would roll back voting access.
There's also early voting for the Houston County ESPLOST continuation.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) -- David Perdue will not run for the United States Senate in Georgia in 2022. This is according to a news release from the former senator. Perdue calls this “a personal decision, not a political one.” According…
ATLANTA, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - Former Senator David Perdue filed campaign paperwork to run for U.S. Senate in 2022. According to the Associated Press, Perdue filed a statement of candidacy on Monday with the Federal Election Commission. If approved, Perdue could…
(NBC News) The Trump legal team presented its case Friday, calling the former president's impeachment "an unjust and blatantly unconstitutional act of political vengeance." Mr. Trump's lawyers zeroed in on his fiery words directly before the deadly Capitol siege when…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic prosecutors in Donald Trump's impeachment trial say rioters believed they were acting on the “president’s orders” to storm the Capitol to undo Joe Biden's election victory. The House is ready to wrap up opening arguments. Biden…
(NBC News) -- Opening their impeachment case, House managers on Wednesday turned former President Trump into a powerful witness against himself, using his own words as evidence he incited the attack on the U.S. Capitol and planted the seeds of…
ATLANTA (AP/CNN) — A Georgia prosecutor said in a letter that she has opened a criminal investigation into “attempts to influence” the outcome of last year’s general election. Former President Donald Trump was not specifically named in the letter, but…
VP Mike Pence telephoned Vice President-elect Kamala Harris Thursday to congratulate her and offer his belated assistance. (CNN) -- President Trump has not congratulated President-elect Biden, but the vice president did call Kamala Harris Thursday. In their first conversation since…
Feds warn extremists may be emboldened to carry out additional attacks after Capitol insurrection WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. officials say the number of National Guard troops coming to Washington by Inauguration Day has grown to 26,000. Some will be armed.…
CNN's Ed Lavandera spoke to Trump supporters during the President's visit to his signature border wall on the US-Mexico border, some of whom are still holding on to conspiracy theories that the 2020 election was stolen.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – Attorney J Davis from James W. Davis and Associates joins 41NBC’s Shelby Coates for our weekly segment “It’s the Law.” This week Davis discusses the recorded phone call between President Donald Trump and Georgia Secretary of…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) - Twin victories in the Georgia runoff elections now give the Democratic Party control of the U.S. Senate. This comes as NBC News projects Democrat Jon Ossoff defeated Republican incumbent David Perdue. And fellow Democrat Raphael Warnock…
