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Atlanta’s U.S. attorney monitoring for voter interference or threats against election workers. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution is providing this content as part of our public service mission. Learn more about supporting real journalism. As early voting is underway in Georgia’s first general election since the razor-thin 2020 presidential contest, law enforcement and election officials are watching for disruptions by radicalized individuals feeding off conspiracy theories and disproven allegations of fraud. This year’s election could be at risk of threats, interference and misinformation that has been building over the last two years since the proliferation of stolen election claims by former President...

Across the state, candidates for public office are repeating Trump’s false claims that the 2020 election was rigged and the contest was stolen from him. Many are running for local office and state legislative seats, while some are seeking the most powerful posts in the state. The conspiracy theories are already complicating GOP primaries in Georgia, as Republicans try to fend off ascendant Democrats fresh off a string of victories in November’s presidential election and January’s U.S. Senate runoffs. The leading candidates competing to challenge Democratic U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock have raised questions about the election results and echoed the...

The most obvious example of duplicates in the initial count occurred in a batch of 99 ballots first scanned the morning of Oct. 28, then scanned again about an hour later, with the second batch tallied in exact reverse order from the first. Those batches had 58 votes for Biden, 39 for Trump, one for Libertarian Jo Jorgensen and one for West. Part or all of another batch of 98 ballots appeared to be scanned a second time within minutes on election night. Biden received 55 votes in the first of those batches and 56 in the second batch. Many...

The new school year is about to start, and we can't have people walking around without being paralyzed by fear. As we are now well into July, plans for the 2021–2022 school year are ramping up. For many school systems, the first day of school is less than one month away. Given this, and in order to make sure that the government schools maintain as much control as possible over American children, the COVID-worshiping media are again ramping up the Wuhan Virus panic porn. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (AJC) is no exception. With an opinion piece entitled, "To mask or not...

Cleta Mitchell, the conservative lawyer that can be heard interjecting in the now infamous call between President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, resigned from her role as partner at the Washington office of law firm Foley & Lardner on Tuesday, the Washington Post reports. Mitchell, who advised Trump during his Saturday phone call with Raffensperger in an effort to overturn the presidential election, could be heard multiple times during the call helping the president as he made baseless claims regarding the election and demanding that the secretary of state release election data. “So what are we going...

If you’ve ventured outside lately, say, to run to the store for groceries, you’ve likely encountered a familiar scene: Masks dangling from faces. Safe distances of 6 feet reduced to mere inches.Some not wearing masks at all.That’s what makes Gov. Brian Kemp’s decision to lift the shelter-at-home mandate so dangerous. *** As you might expect, the decision to end the state’s most ambitious attempt to slow the spread of the virus drew criticism from healthcare professionals.One went as far as to say that Kemp could be setting the stage for “a punishing new wave of infections.” They think the governor...

The evening was already surreal, what with President Donald Trump throwing Brian Kemp under the bus and disavowing the governor’s plans to begin allowing small businesses to open doors closed by the pandemic. “Would I do that? No,” Trump had said from the White House. “I want to protect people’s lives. But I’m going to let him make his decision. But I told him I totally disagree.” Back in Atlanta,at 10 p.m., with her 9-year-old daughter looking over her shoulder, Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms received a text on her phone: “[N-word], just shut up and RE-OPEN ATLANTA!” Seven minutes later,...

Every president, going back to George H. W. Bush, has had to handle a natural disaster during his term. For the aforementioned Bush, it was Hurricane Andrew. For his son, President George W. Bush, it was Hurricane Katrina. Bill Clinton faced the devastation of deadly tornadoes in Oklahoma, and Barack Obama experienced Superstorm Sandy. One thing all these leaders had in common was their response to the victims — from reassuring messages of hope to comforting hugs. Focus on the victims of Hurricane Harvey, according to the Washington Post, was missing from President Donald Trump’s visit to Texas on Tuesday.

Karen Miracle of Brandon, Fla. pushes Barry Osteen of LutzTown, fla. during a heated debate between Osteen and her husband, Garry Miracle, of Brandon, center, during a healthcare town hall-style meeting at the Children's Board of Hillsborough County, in Tampa, Fla. A town hall meeting to discuss President Barack Obama's health care reform plan turned into a heated confrontation after more than a thousand people showed up in Tampa to voice their opinion.

Barack Obama may have The Bomb. And it’s not aboard the Enola Gay. It’s now aboard the Obama Express campaign for the Democratic Presidential nomination. Suddenly Hillary’s not looking invincible. The secret weapon is, of course, Oprah, the nationally adored talk-show host. She attracted a crowd estimated at almost 30,000 Sunday in Columbia, S.C., after campaigning with him Saturday in Iowa. “There are those who say it’s not his time, that he should wait his turn,” she told the crowd in Columbia. “Think about where you’d be in your life if you’d waited when people told you to.” She added,...

Those who seek to outlaw abortion often use the rhetoric of "protecting the most vulnerable and helpless" in our communities. Many of them are Christians who see their opposition to abortion rights as inextricably linked with their faith and their understanding of Christian ethics. After all, wouldn't a God of love and life want us to protect life wherever we found it? If only it were that simple. In practice, there are other questions we must ask. Does a God of love and life ever support war? Does such a God understand that some innocent civilians will die when we...

Starkville, Miss. — There’s really no way to describe this place. How do you describe nothing? Think of it like this: Alongside this far-flung outpost, Auburn, Ala., seems as big and bustling as New York, N.Y. In a way, it’s nice that Mississippi State plays football. Without the mid-sized stadium rising above this low-slung burg, you’d miss Starkville altogether and go motoring off into Arkansas. With gas the price it is, who can afford such an overshot? Other means of transport are problematic. You can’t fly into Starkville itself. You have to land at the ambitiously named Golden Triangle Regional...

[ The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: 01/30/2004 ]   JOHN KERRY Bush in 2001 Bush in 2004 HEADS OF STATE Drawings by MIKE LUCKOVICH / Staff Forget the issues. Look at the nose. Are those the eyes of a statesman? What about the ears? Close to the skull or practically perpendicular? Even as he ponders the war, the economy, Michael Jackson and the other issues weighing on the republic, Mike Luckovich must also study the facial features of the leading actors on the national stage. Luckovich the citizen has not made up his mind about the Democrats running for president. But Luckovich...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - Here's something you probably never expected from Rush Limbaugh: No comment. The nation's talk radio king, opiner on everything from Bill Clinton's misdeeds to feminazis, repeatedly declined Friday to discuss accusations that he illegally bought prescription drugs. "I haven't yet gotten to the bottom of what all this is about," Limbaugh said during his three-hour broadcast, which reaches an estimated 20 million listeners. But when he knows more, he promised, "I'm going to come clean, as I always have." Instead, Limbaugh used his electronic bully pulpit to defend -- and refuse to apologize for --...

CNN refuses to be left out of the media bonanza Fox New whipped up last week by suing liberal comedian Al Franken. Atlanta-based CNN is bringing Franken on as a guest host on "Crossfire" Monday and Tuesday. He'll take the liberal chair across from regular conservative commentator Tucker Carlson for the half-hour debate show. Fox last week filed a lawsuit against Franken and his publisher, the Penguin Group, to stop them from using Fox's trademarked slogan, "Fair and Balanced" in the title of Franken's new book. Related: • Are these guys fair and balanced? You decide The book, called "Lies...

With the reality of entrenched opposition in Iraq resulting in increasing U.S. fatalities there, the opposition at home to the occupation is hardening by the day. The military appears to have come up with a solution: Change reality. In what has been described as a "Pentagon infomercial," the Defense Department has hired a former producer of the TV show "Cops" to film postwar Iraq from its perspective. Though producer Bertram van Munster has denied that he is shooting a propaganda piece, it is clear that the Pentagon is gearing up to frame its own account -- and history -- of...

After years of observation, I have finally been able to complete my Republican lexicon: Pro-life: We support the births of millions of unwanted children. However, if they become criminals, we reserve the right to exterminate all of them. At least they had their chance at life. Patriotic: We love the Republican president and will give him all of the power he desires as long as he does what we want. Un-American: Anyone who refers to the Constitution of the United States of America. Compassionate conservatism: We support others who are not like us as long as they live their lives...