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Leaked recordings of interviews with four co-defendants in the Georgia election interference case have been released, providing new details that could be damaging to former President Donald Trump and others involved in the racketeering scheme. The recordings feature former Trump attorneys Jenna Ellis, Sidney Powell, and Kenneth Chesebro, as well as bail bondsman Scott Hall, discussing their roles in the conspiracy to overturn the 2020 presidential election results in Georgia. The information revealed in the recordings could implicate Trump and Rudy Giuliani, and prosecutors are using these plea deals to pressure other co-defendants to cooperate. The trial date for the case has not yet been set. [Extracted from the article]

GLO:nyo/24oct22:42n1.jpg PHOTO (COLOR): . gl Five decades later, Warnock, Georgia'sfirst Black senator, is defending his seatagainst Walker, the Republican Party's firstBlack U.S. Senate nominee in the state. ON THE DAY HERSCHEL WALKER Was born, inMarch 1962, the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther KingJr. wrote in The Nation, "The President has proposeda ten-year plan to put a man on the moon. At one point, he triedto undermine Warnock's legislative effortsto lower the cost of insulin by saying thatpeople with diabetes needed to "eat right."Warnock kept a straight face and leanedharder into the message he hopes will cutthrough the noise: "My opponent is notready to represent the people of Georgia.". [Extracted from the article]

The decision to halt the case until a decision is made in the appeal makes it highly unlikely that case will be tried before the November election. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The 2020 general election in the United States took place against the backdrop of a pandemic and countless claims about voter fraud. The presidential race in Georgia was extremely close, and in this state both a hand and machine recount followed the initial promulgation of results. Armed with certified results, we conduct a statistical audit of the 2020 Georgia election by analyzing residual vote rates in statewide races. A race's residual vote rate combines the rates at which ballots contain undervotes (abstentions) and overvotes (when voters cast more than the allowed number of votes in a race). Anomalously high residual vote rates can be indicative of underlying election administration problems, and our analysis of these rates in Georgia finds nothing anomalous in the state's presidential race, a notable result given this contest's closeness. We do, however, uncover an unusually high overvote rate in Georgia's special United States Senate election. This overvote rate is concentrated in Gwinnett County and appears to reflect the county's two-column ballot design that led roughly 4,200 voters to select more than one candidate for Senate in the special election, in the process rendering invalid their votes in this contest. Gwinnett County's two-column ballot was not pivotal to the outcome of Georgia's Senate special election but nonetheless joins other ballot formats, like the infamous butterfly ballot used in Palm Beach County in the 2000 presidential race, that contribute to voter confusion and should be avoided in the future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Republican Governor Brian Kemp of Georgia has faced criticism from former President Donald Trump and his supporters for refusing to interfere in Georgia's 2020 election results. Despite this, Kemp has managed to maintain his position and prevent Trump-endorsed MAGA forces from taking over state government. As Reagan conservatives seek to regain influence in the Republican Party, Kemp's approach of appealing to principled conservatives who believe in the rule of law and the US Constitution may serve as a model. However, Kemp must decide whether to persuade Republicans to view another Trump presidency as a fundamental risk to the nation or to align himself with politically ambitious politicians who are afraid to lead. [Extracted from the article]

Lawmakers cited a "profound failure" by Georgia law enforcement to investigate the Coffee County incident themselves. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The GOP-controlled state senate will probe whether the DA behind Trump's election interference case in Georgia had an inappropriate relationship with a prosecutor on the case. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on politics Georgia from enacting a sweeping election law making it harder for people to vote. It mentions voting right advocates are banking on corporate America to undo the dramatic new restrictions and provision that makes legal to pass out snacks and water to people waiting hours in line to cast ballots. It also mentions activists are calling for boycotts of companies.

The article uncovers striking similarities between the prosecution of former U.S. President Donald Trump and eighteen others for alleged election interference in Georgia and the Atlanta school cheating scandal. It delves into Fani Willis's roles as both a co-lead prosecutor in the Atlanta school cheating scandal, where administrators and teachers faced charges of manipulating state achievement tests, and as the current Fulton County district attorney leading the Trump case.

The indictment, filed Aug. 14 by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis after a 2 ½ year probe, alleges that Trump and 18 co-conspirators violated Georgia's racketeering law. Trump, who denies wrongdoing, has called the Georgia indictment a "travesty of justice" and said all the cases against him are part of a political bid to derail his run. He allegedly worked directly with top Georgia Republicans, including then-party Chair Shafer, to have the electors meet at the State Capitol on Dec. 14, 2020, and cast Electoral College votes in favor of Trump. [Extracted from the article]

COLUMNS THE WHITE SUPREMACIST ATTACK ON THE US Capitol on January 6 temporarily obscured the titanic achievement of Georgia Democrats the night before: defeating right-wing Senators Kelly Loef-fler and David Perdue in the state's runoff elections, electing the Rev. Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff and giving Democrats control of the Senate, with Vice President Kamala Harris poised to break any 50-50 tie. (Now state Republicans are pushing to repeal Georgia's no-excuse absentee ballot-ing - ironically, a GOP initiative once thought to help its candidates, especially in rural ar-eas - and add a voter ID requirement to the absentee ballot process.) Democrats also got an assist from Trump, who has spent much of his time since his loss trashing Kemp and Georgia's secretary of state for not finding a way to sniff out nonexistent voter fraud and hand him the state. [Extracted from the article]

Trump is quoted in the indictment pressuring Justice Department officials to make false statements by stating,"Just say that the election was corrupt, and leave the rest to me and the Republican congressmen." But Trump, who is seeking to return to the White House in the 2024 election, has denied wrongdoing and claims the case is part of a vast "witch hunt" to keep him out of office. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg) -- Donald Trump and 18 codefendants have fewer than 10 days to turn themselves in for arraignment in Atlanta on charges they engaged in a sweeping criminal operation to keep the former president in office after he lost the 2020 election. Dec. 31, 2020 Trump files a federal lawsuit in Georgia accusing election officials of counting illegally cast votes and claiming there was "misconduct" at ballot-counting facilities. [Extracted from the article]

The Georgia law is less restrictive than the federal oath, which bars grand jurors from talking about what witnesses said as well as their deliberations, said McBurney, a former federal prosecutor. (Bloomberg) -- A Georgia lawmaker has proposed legislation that would effectively bar the type of news media interviews given this week by the foreperson of a special grand jury that investigated Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election. [Extracted from the article]

Trump thanked a grand jury, even though it unanimously found there was no evidence of voter fraud, as the ex-president claims. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

It's still not clear who could be indicted in the investigation—but DA Fani Willis has said charges may be "imminent." [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

That's in addition to more than 2.28 million voters who've already voted across the state -- a new high for early voting in mid-term elections, according to the Georgia Secretary of State's office. Those ballots will be centrally tabulated later this evening, officials said, similar to how the country handles early voting -- but without the need to further confirm identification, because ballots dropped at polling places today are already effectively signature-verified, officials said. Early Voting Proves Popular (9:15 a.m.) More than 44.2 million people voted before Election Day in the 2022 midterms, outpacing the last comparable election, according to data compiled by the US Elections Project at the University of Florida. Elections experts say it's unclear whether the high rate of early voting is a sign of greater-than-usual voter enthusiasm, or if more people have simply switched to early voting instead of casting their ballot on Election Day. [Extracted from the article]

Trump signed documents under oath claiming votes were fraudulently counted in Georgia, even though he was informed the claim was false. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

He's the latest Trump ally whose testimony has been sought in a wide-ranging investigation into the former president's push to overturn the 2020 election. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The probe could lead to criminal charges against Trump over his push to overturn Georgia's election results if wrongdoing, like conspiracy to commit election fraud, is found. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

(Bloomberg) -- Under pressure from county elections officials who derided it as "security theater", a Georgia state Senate committee has stripped the most contentious provisions from a voting bill, including mimicking Florida's adoption of "elections police." Despite its deeply conservative roots, Georgia state officials have assertively pushed back against former President Donald Trump's false claim that the 2020 election was stolen from him. [Extracted from the article]

The author describes the recount of the five million ballots in Georgia in the 2020 presidential elections. Republicans expressed doubts over the result of the elections that led to the recounting of the ballots. He cites claims by Republicans of voting fraud even though there is no evidence of it. He describes a live feed by U.S. President Donald Trump that the recount is a scam. He mentions the reaction of activist Marilyn Marks stating that the recount is an illicit audit.

Duncan said the Republican Party is "damaged" and he plans to launch a new national organization to fix it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The day ended with Donald Trump firmly in control of the state Republican Party, in a microcosm of the national struggle for the GOP's soul following the November election and the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. (Bloomberg Businessweek) -- On a brisk Saturday morning in mid-April, grassroots Republicans gathered in county conventions across Georgia to begin deciding their party's future. [Extracted from the article]

Georgia Republicans say the new restrictions are necessary because of concerns about voter fraud that arose during the 2020 election, which former President Donald Trump claims was stolen from him through massive voter fraud. (Bloomberg) -- Georgia's restrictive new voting law is "intentional discrimination" and must be struck down as unconstitutional, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People said in a fresh lawsuit. Georgia Voting Law "Intentional Discrimination", NAACP Suit Says. [Extracted from the article]

Keywords: 321042Z; GM; HD; KO; BUSINESS; CONS; CONSD; COS; ELECT; GEN; GOV; INDUSTRIES; NORTHAM; POL; SPORTS; US; WORLD EN 321042Z GM HD KO BUSINESS CONS CONSD COS ELECT GEN GOV INDUSTRIES NORTHAM POL SPORTS US WORLD Corporations that had declined to publicly oppose a sweeping Georgia election law claimed some responsibility for pushing to remove some of the most egregious elements from the measure, which critics have said will make it more difficult for people to vote. Absentee voting, ballot drop boxes and early voting are among GOP lawmakers' targets. [Extracted from the article]

The State Bar of Georgia has asked Wood to undergo a mental health evaluation as part of an investigation into the attorney. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

(Bloomberg) -- Former Republican Senator David Perdue has decided not to run again next year against freshman Democratic Senator Raphael Warnock in Georgia as the parties vie for control of the narrowly split Senate. The two Jan. 5 runoff elections gave Democrats the slimmest control of the U.S. Senate, with Perdue losing to Jon Ossoff and appointed Senator Kelly Loeffler losing to Warnock. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg) -- Donald Trump is on track for a likely acquittal in his impeachment trial, but he will still have to face a legal threat in Georgia from a prosecutor who's only a month into her job. A spokesman for Willis told The Associated Press that Trump's call to Raffensperger was "part of" the investigation but declined to say whether the former president was a subject of the probe. [Extracted from the article]