Senate Bill 214, which was introduced by state Senator Max Burns, the author of the bill banning Q.R. codes, would implement optical scanners to read ballots and tabulate votes. Another bill, Senate Bill 568, would utilize a similar optical system to scan hand-marked paper ballots, in addition to requiring recounts to be conducted by hand. […]
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You can watch this episode of Right Now With Perry Bacon above or by following this show on YouTube or Substack. You can read a transcript here. Georgia voters shocked the nation by electing two Democratic U.S. senators during the 2020 election cycle. As senators, Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock have become two of the […]
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Bacon: So I’ll close with this, which is probably what brought me to interview you in the first place. I’ve known Tia a long time, but we were talking internally about who might run in 2028, and then I brought up Ossoff, because I think he is charismatic and he’s youngish, and he had done […]
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“There is no exception to the major questions doctrine for emergency statutes. Nor does the fact that tariffs implicate foreign affairs render the doctrine inapplicable. The Framers gave ‘Congress alone’ the power to impose tariffs during peacetime,” Roberts wrote. “And the foreign affairs implications of tariffs do not make it any more likely that Congress […]
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But recently released emails from 2014 reveal that the counsel’s fondness for the “international man of mystery” inspired her to loop him into the inner sanctum of the federal government, going so far as to dish White House secrets to the convicted sex criminal, reported Bloomberg Thursday. At the time of her emails, the White […]
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In the House, “frontline” Democratic incumbents in battleground districts outraised their GOP opponents by 3-to-1, on average, in the last three months of 2025, while multiple Democratic challengers in key races outraised the GOP incumbents there, according to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. The biggest fundraiser among House candidates is Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who drew […]
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