Archiv: Georgia (US state)


27.04.2024 - 18:35 [ URMI.org ]

Who is Noelle McAfee? All About Emory University Philosophy Professor, Arrested at Campus

Noelle McAfee (age 63, born November 25, 1960) is a prominent political theorist and feminist. Currently, she holds the position of chair in the philosophy department at Emory University, a role she’s held since 2010.

Alongside being a Professor of Philosophy, she’s also a Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Emory.

27.04.2024 - 18:25 [ @Hindeyya7 / Twitter ]

Police arrested Noelle McAfee, Chair of the Philosophy Department at Emory University.

(25.04.2024)

27.04.2024 - 18:22 [ Common Dreams ]

Violent Arrest of Emory Professor Spotlights Brutality of Police Crackdown on Campus Protests

(25.04.2024)

„To sustain this level of blind support for Israel, the U.S. must erode its own democracy,“ said one foreign policy expert. „And that is what we see happening on U.S. campuses now.“

27.04.2024 - 18:19 [ CNN ]

See police detain members of crowd at Emory University during pro-Palestinian protest

(25.04.2024)

A CNN crew witnessed at least two professors detained by Atlanta police, including Emory University economics professor Caroline Fohlin and Noëlle McAfee, chair of the philosophy department.

27.04.2024 - 05:00 [ The Rational National / Youtube ]

Campus Protests: Beautiful Moments Vs. Trampling Of Speech

Going over some of the news, good and bad, coming out of the campus protests. Including what happened to Emory University‘s professor of economics Caroline Fohlin, but also a beautiful speech given by an 88-year-old activist.

21.01.2024 - 07:22 [ Washington Post ]

Growing number of Senate Democrats question Biden’s Israel strategy

(19.01.2024)

The growing willingness of establishment Democrats to criticize or push back on Israel — a move that would have come with serious political ramifications just a few months ago — signals a shift in the politics of the party since the war in Gaza began more than 100 days ago. Senators from swing states, including Georgia, Wisconsin and Minnesota, have signed on to some of these measures as polls show a notable drop in support for Biden among young, Muslim and Arab American voters over his handling of the issue.

25.05.2022 - 10:42 [ theHill.com ]

Kemp defeats Perdue in Georgia, a major blow to Trump

Kemp, a onetime ally of the former president, stirred Trump’s ire following the 2020 presidential election after he rebuffed his pleas to overturn President Biden’s electoral victory in Georgia. Trump vowed to campaign against Kemp, eventually persuading Perdue to enter the race for governor in hopes of ousting him.

But despite carrying Trump’s endorsement, Perdue struggled to gain traction among Georgia Republican voters.

22.07.2021 - 18:48 [ Democracy Now! ]

Four Colombian Mercenaries Tied to Moïse Assassination Were Trained at Fort Benning in U.S.

The Pentagon has confirmed four of the Colombian mercenaries accused of assassinating Haitian President Jovenel Moïse once received U.S. military training at Fort Benning in Georgia while they were members of the Colombian armed forces.

06.01.2021 - 13:02 [ theHill.com ]

Warnock win puts Democrats within reach of Senate majority

The race between Perdue and Ossoff is much closer, with the candidates separated by about 3,000 votes and taking turns in the lead throughout the night.

06.01.2021 - 12:54 [ theHill.com ]

Warnock defeats Loeffler in Georgia Senate runoff

Neither Loeffler nor Warnock reached the 50 percent threshold needed to win the general election in November, sending the race into a runoff. Warnock, who benefited from then-Rep. Doug Collins (R-Ga.) running in the nonpartisan blanket primary alongside Loeffler, garnered roughly 33 percent of the vote at that time. Loeffler brought in around 26 percent.

21.11.2020 - 13:00 [ Tagesschau.de ]

Neuauszählung der Wahlstimmen: Biden als Sieger in Georgia bestätigt

Die Neuauszählung der Stimmen per Hand habe ergeben, „dass die ursprüngliche maschinelle Stimmauszählung den Gewinner der Wahl korrekt wiedergegeben hat“, hieß es am Abend auf der Website des Wahlleiters von Georgia, Brad Raffensperger.

21.11.2020 - 12:53 [ theHill.com ]

Georgia certifies election results, making Biden win official

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) certified the results of the state’s presidential election on Friday, a step that will make President-elect Joe Biden’s victory there official after a days-long hand recount and ongoing efforts by President Trump to sow doubt in the election results.

16.11.2020 - 19:25 [ apnews.com ]

AP FACT CHECK: Trump wrong on Georgia voter signature checks

When a voter requests an absentee ballot on a paper application, he or she must sign it. Election officials compare that signature to the signature in voter registration files before a ballot is sent to the voter, Raffensperger said.

When those ballots are returned, the required signature on the outer envelope is compared to signatures in the voter registration system.

13.11.2020 - 19:30 [ @CNNSotu / Twitter ]

Crush of mail-in ballots slows count in 4 key states #CNNElection

@jeremyherb
& @fschouten

13.11.2020 - 11:40 [ Politico.com ]

Cause of Election Day glitch in Georgia counties still unexplained

(11/04/2020 01:55 PM EST
Updated: 11/12/2020 10:28 PM EST)

The supervisor, Marcia Ridley of the Spalding County Board of Elections, had initially attributed the problem to a vendor’s 11th-hour update to the equipment. But log files for the devices — electronic poll books that poll workers use to sign in voters at precincts — show that no such update occurred to the devices the night before Election Day, Ridley said in a statement to POLITICO on Thursday. However, she said she stands by her previous statements last week that a representative for the election technology vendor, Dominion Voting Systems, told her office that it had uploaded some kind of update the night before the election and that this had created the glitch.

11.11.2020 - 10:32 [ theHill.com ]

Senate Republicans urge Trump to go all-in on Georgia

The party’s 2024 hopefuls are set to blanket the Peach State ahead of the Jan. 5 runoff elections, but GOP senators say they hope that Trump, who is locked in a myriad of legal challenges surrounding the presidential race, is able to lend his megaphone to help hold onto the Senate majority.

04.11.2020 - 12:40 [ Atlanta Journal-Constitution ]

Fulton County election results delayed after pipe bursts in room with ballots

They planned to stop scanning absentee ballots at 10:30 p.m. and pick it up back in the morning. No official could explain before press time why Fulton was stopping its count of absentee ballots at that time, only saying that was the procedure.

“As planned, Fulton County will continue to tabulate the remainder of absentee ballots over the next two days.

04.11.2020 - 09:14 [ CNN ]

Crush of mail-in ballots slows count in 4 key states

Four key battleground states — Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan and Georgia — began Wednesday with tens of thousands of absentee ballots uncounted, leaving the White House race between President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden up in the air.

Election officials in some states called it a night and planned to resume the count in the morning, while some counties in Pennsylvania weren‘t even to start tabulating their mail-in votes until later Wednesday morning.

04.11.2020 - 09:12 [ theweek.com / Twitter ]

Georgia‘s most populous county stopped counting ballots at 10:30 p.m.

04.11.2020 - 09:09 [ hodlonaut / Twitter ]

Georgia stopped counting ballots at 10:30pm with 93% votes counted and Trump leading with 120k votes.

Getting critical clarity on the election of the president of the USA clearly has to take the back seat to poll workers getting that beauty sleep.

Nothing to see here.

03.11.2020 - 18:51 [ theHill.com ]

Officials express confidence in voting security amid early technical glitches

The Spalding County Sheriff‘s Office wrote in a Facebook post Tuesday that „the computers at all polling locations across Spalding County are down. The problem is being worked on and hopefully will be resolved quickly. Until the issue is fixed, paper ballots are being used at all locations.“

A spokesperson for Dominion Voting Systems, the voting equipment manufacturer that was awarded a contract by Georgia state officials to implement new voting systems last year, told The Hill that the company had “tech support onsite to assist the county with real-time help and all challenges are being addressed as quickly as possible.”

31.10.2020 - 15:32 [ theHill.com ]

Trump to hold 14 rallies in final three days of campaign

In a nod to the importance of winning Pennsylvania in order to secure a second term, Trump will hold four rallies in the Keystone State on Saturday.

The president will then hold five rallies on Sunday, all in states he won in 2016 but where he is now on defense against Biden: Michigan, Iowa, North Carolina, Georgia and Florida.

Trump will hold five more rallies on Monday on the eve of Election Day. He will stop in North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, along with two events in Michigan. His final event will be in Grand Rapids, Mich., the same city where he held his final rally of the 2016 campaign.

27.10.2020 - 15:51 [ Washington Post ]

Election 2020 live updates: Trump heading to three states, as Biden plans two stops in Georgia

Tuesday is shaping up as a busy day on the campaign trail, as President Trump plans to stage rallies in three states — Michigan, Wisconsin and Nebraska — and Democratic nominee Joe Biden is scheduled to hold a pair of events in Georgia, a state that Republicans have carried in every White House contest since 1996.

27.10.2020 - 15:19 [ Joe Biden / Youtube ]

Dr. Jill Biden is LIVE at a Drive-In Rally in Savannah, Georgia | Joe Biden For President 2020

With only eight days to go until Election Day, Dr. Jill Biden is in Savannah, Georgia reminding Americans to make a plan to vote and vote early. All the info you need to make voting plan is available at makeaplan.com.

25.10.2020 - 13:42 [ Reverend Raphael Warnock, running for U.S. Senate / Twitter ]

You should be in control of how you access and use the Internet, not corporations. We need to re-establish net neutrality protections.

25.10.2020 - 13:28 [ WarnockForGeorgia.com ]

VOTE WARNOCK: Fighting for a better Georgia

Reverend Raphael Warnock grew up in Kayton Homes public housing in Savannah. The family was short on money, but long on faith, love and humor. Raphael and his eleven brothers and sisters were taught the meaning of hard work.
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09.09.2020 - 01:05 [ The White House 45 Archived / Twitter ]

President @realDonaldTrump just signed a presidential order extending the moratorium on offshore drilling on Florida‘s Gulf Coast—and expanding it to Florida‘s Atlantic Coast and the coasts of Georgia & South Carolina!

(Sep 8, 2020)

13.08.2020 - 21:13 [ The Hill ]

Georgia governor drops lawsuit over Atlanta‘s mask mandate

In a statement, Kemp said that he has failed to reach an agreement with Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms (D) and will instead file an executive order.

13.08.2020 - 04:34 [ Trend.az ]

German government to help implement smart traffic light system in Georgia

Since November 2017, sectional radars and smart cameras began to appear in the country, the main advantage of which is that they can automatically identify the offender and issue a fine. They work with the help of video analysis programs located in the Joint Operations Center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

16.07.2020 - 10:12 [ The Hill ]

Georgia governor overrides all local mask orders in the state

Kemp’s executive order issued Wednesday prevents local governments from enforcing mandatory face covering orders that are more restrictive than the current statewide order. The move effectively voided orders issued by at least 15 local governments across the state, according to The Associated Press.

10.06.2020 - 23:00 [ Voter Protection Project / Twitter ]

Still over 30,000 ballots left to be counted in #GA07.

VPP is working to raise $25,000 for @NabilahforGA07
in the next 24 hours. Can you chip in to our EMERGENCY FUND to make sure every vote is counted in #GA07?

10.06.2020 - 22:57 [ Axios.com ]

Georgia secretary of state launches investigation into chaos at voting booths

Flashback: App issues marred vote reporting during the Iowa caucuses in February, highlighting the risk of tech issues during a key election.

10.06.2020 - 22:51 [ New York Times ]

Georgia Primary Election Results: Seventh Congressional District

Democratic Primary

Carolyn Bourdeaux lost the 2018 general election in this district by fewer than 500 votes. Nabilah Islam was endorsed by Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York.

10.06.2020 - 09:53 [ NBC News ]

Georgia election ‚catastrophe‘ in largely minority areas sparks investigation

(09.06.2020)

„This seems to be happening throughout Atlanta and perhaps throughout the county. People have been in line since before 7:00 am this morning,“ Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, a Democrat, tweeted shortly after polls were supposed to open — and in some cases still hadn‘t.

Cody Cutting was in a long line at Lang Carson Community Center in the Reynoldstown neighborhood of Atlanta, where the line snaked around the block and some people had been waiting to cast their votes for 4½ hours.

10.06.2020 - 09:49 [ Prospect.org ]

‘My Name Is Nabilah Islam. It’s an American Name.’

(04.06.2020)

Two days before we spoke on May 31, Nabilah Islam had joined with protesters in Atlanta who were calling for an end to police violence and racist policing. Islam is running for Congress in Georgia’s Seventh District, which includes Gwinnett County near Atlanta. It’s an open seat, and the Democratic primary is June 9.

Islam, 30, said that she didn’t see any elected officials or candidates at the protest she attended. “I think it’s very important that we’re present with people on the ground,” she said. “I think the status quo isn’t working when a leading cause of death for young black men are police encounters in this country.”

10.06.2020 - 09:42 [ Washington Post ]

Democrats grow bullish on Senate prospects as Georgia voters cast ballots

(09.06.2020)

Also on the ballot Tuesday are primaries with general-election implications, including in the suburban Atlanta district held by retiring Rep. Rob Woodall (R) that Democrats narrowly missed winning in 2018.

Republican candidates include business executive Lynne Homrich, physician Rich McCormick and state Sen. Renee Unterman, while Democrats are choosing whether to renominate Carolyn Bourdeaux, a Georgia State University professor who came within 433 votes of unseating Woodall. Among the five other candidates seeking the nomination are activist Nabilah Islam, state Sen. Zahra Karinshak and state Rep. Brenda Lopez Romero.