(APN) ATLANTA –– Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp kicked off this Presidential Election year with a new program to get high schoolers civically engaged. The program trains high school students to act as “Ambassadors” of the Secretary of State’s office by holding voter registration drives and educating other youth about the electoral process. “As the father of […]
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(APN) ATLANTA — On yesterday, Friday, October 30, 2015, thousands gathered at Clark Atlanta University’s Epps Gymnasium to hear Presidential candidate, and former Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton speak, as she rolled out her African Americans for Hillary campaign at the historic Black college. Clinton took the stage and acknowledged and thanked prominent Civil Rights Movement leaders from the […]
Read more(APN) ATLANTA — Republicans maintained control of all statewide Georgia positions, despite ethics scandals plaguing Republican Gov. Nathan Deal and Attorney General Sam Olens, and despite apparent voter suppression on the part of Secretary of State Brian Kemp. However, one progressive victory was won when Clayton County voters decided to join MARTA and pay a one penny sales tax to […]
Read more(APN) ATLANTA — The Board of Directors of Atlanta Progressive News has issued a second round of endorsements in the General Election for 2014 for statewide, U.S. midterm, and other elections in Georgia. In our latest round of endorsements, we endorse Greg Hecht for Attorney General of Georgia; Doreen Carter for Secretary of State; and Daniel Blackman for Public Service […]
Read more(APN) ATLANTA — The voter registration case brought by New Georgia Project (NGP) and other voter rights organizations against Secretary of State (SOS) Brian Kemp appears likely to head to the Supreme Court of Georgia, Atlanta Progressive News has learned. The attorneys for the Plaintiffs will be making a decision about whether to appeal “post haste,” Julie Houk, Senior Special […]
Read more(APN) ATLANTA — On yesterday, Monday, October 27, 2014, eight activists were arrested after a sit-in staged in the office of Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp, in protest of what voting rights organizations say are 40,000 missing voter registration applications. Chants of “We will not be silenced!” and “Let Us Vote! Let Us Vote!” rose from citizens and activists […]
Read more(APN) ATLANTA — Fulton County Superior Court Judge Christopher Brasher did not immediately issue a ruling, after a hearing yesterday, October 24, 2014, on the writ of mandamus sought by New Georgia Project (NGP) and other voter advocacy groups with respect to what they say are approximately 40,000 missing voter registration forms. A writ of mandamus is an extraordinary form […]
Read moreWith additional reporting by Matthew Charles Cardinale (APN) ATLANTA — On October 10, 2014, Atlanta Progressive News submitted an open records request to Secretary of State (SOS) Brian Kemp’s office seeking copies of all complaints received by the SOS regarding the New Georgia Project (NGP) from all Georgia counties during 2014. However, the SOS office sent APN only one complaint […]
Read moreWith additional reporting by Matthew Charles Cardinale (APN) ATLANTA — Georgia Secretary of State (SOS) Brian Kemp’s Office has said that his investigation of the New Georgia Project’s (NGP) mass voter registration drive across Georgia this year, 2014, began because of complaints received by several Georgia counties regarding alleged voter fraud on the part of NGP. However, the SOS office’s […]
Read moreWith additional reporting by Matthew Charles Cardinale, News Editor (APN) ATLANTA — The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, a national organization, has filed a lawsuit in Fulton County Superior Court against Secretary of State Brian Kemp and five Georgia counties, regarding more than 40,000 voter registration applications that they say remain unprocessed. They filed the suit on behalf […]
Read moreArticle by Anna Simonton, Special to The Atlanta Progressive News. Photograph by Anna Kelley. (APN) ATLANTA — Amidst a storm of controversy surrounding Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp’s fraud investigation targeting New Georgia Project, the Georgia Election Board held the first public hearing on the matter September 17, 2014. The meeting marked the first time Kemp’s office […]
Read more(APN) ATLANTA — Bill Bozarth, the former executive director of Common Cause Georgia, has successfully used Georgia’s five percent petition law to get on the ballot in the State House District 54 race. Jared Thomas, a spokesman for Secretary of State Brian Kemp, confirmed Bozarth’s accomplishment in an interview with Atlanta Progressive News. Bozarth is running […]
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