Peach Tree Times

Protecting against 'voter intimidation' at issue in amicus brief filed by Honest Elections Project

By W.J. Kennedy | Jul 8, 2022

The Honest Elections Project (HEP), a voter integrity advocacy group, has filed an amicus brief in combined lawsuits challenging election reform legislation, SB 202, signed by Gov. Brian Kemp in March 2021.

Raffensperger primary results challenged in court by VoterGA

By W.J. Kennedy | Jun 24, 2022

A nonpartisan voter integrity group is challenging the primary election results of Sec.

Cuccinelli: 'Zero is the best policy' on private money in elections

By W.J. Kennedy | May 25, 2022

Stymied by the Georgia General Assembly, a voter integrity group is working with the State Election Board to keep all private money out of the administration of elections.

Snead: Record early voting turnout in Georgia 'finest rebuttal possible' to voter suppression claims

By W.J. Kennedy | May 20, 2022

The record early voter turnout in Georgia is the “finest rebuttal possible to claims of ‘voter suppression’ that were made repeatedly over the last year,” Jason Snead, executive director of the Honest Elections Project, told the Peach Tree Times.

Citizens United movie showing Zuckerberg pushed Biden over the top by privatizing the 2020 elections grounded on extensive research

By W.J. Kennedy | Apr 28, 2022

The mainstream media has either ignored the Citizens United Productions film Rigged: The Zuckerberg-Funded Plot to Defeat Donald Trump, or predictably belittled its significance.

SB 441 'solid step in the right direction,' Cuccinelli says

By W.J. Kennedy | Apr 6, 2022

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) would have the authority to initiate investigations into violations of the state’s election laws under Senate Bill 441, approved Monday by the Georgia Legislature.

Georgia, Wisconsin investigate ballot harvesting allegations

By W.J. Kennedy | Mar 30, 2022

Officials in Georgia and Wisconsin are investigating allegations that mail ballots were collected by third-party political activists and placed in drop boxes (ballot harvesting) in the 2020 general election, and in Georgia’s two special elections that gave control of the U.S. Senate to the Democrats.

Cuccinelli: 'HB 1464 fails to confront the corrupting influence of Big Tech oligarchs like Mark Zuckerberg'

By W.J. Kennedy | Mar 28, 2022

Former Virginia Attorney General and Republican Ken Cuccinelli, who currently heads a national voter integrity group, is urging Georgia lawmakers to strip language from House-approved legislation, House Bill 1464, that presents an opening for state and local election officials to accept private money to help underwrite the cost of administering elections.

VoterGA co-founder: 'We want to go the other way and prohibit elections officials from using indirect money'

By W.J. Kennedy | Mar 24, 2022

VoterGA, a statewide voter watchdog group, is pressing members of the Georgia Senate Ethics Committee to amend a recently passed election reform bill, House Bill 1464, to strike a provision in the bill allowing private funds in election management.

VoterGA: 2020 election results electronically manipulated

By W.J. Kennedy | Mar 8, 2022

VoterGA alleges that its analysis of ballot images of the November 2020 general election determined that statewide results were electronically manipulated.

VoterGA co-founder says 'no technical or business reason' to move voter registration list to internet cloud

By W.J. Kennedy | Feb 23, 2022

Voter group VoterGA is asking Georgia lawmakers to block Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger’s plan to outsource the state’s voter registration system by moving it to the internet cloud.

VoterGA refutes Raffensperger's statement on 2020 election

By W.J. Kennedy | Feb 16, 2022

Georgia voter group VoterGA contends that a year-old letter that Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger sent to members of Congress and the state General Assembly concerning the 2020 general election results contains numerous errors.

Conservative advocate cites years of Justice Department 'colluding' with progressive groups

By W.J. Kennedy | Dec 13, 2021

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger recent suit against the Department of Justice over its non-compliance with a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request into the communications the DOJ may have had with left-wing groups leading up to a lawsuit it filed in June against Georgia’s election law, has the support of a conservative advocate.

Elections analyst sides with Georgia in lawsuit against Justice Department over FOIA request

By W.J. Kennedy | Dec 3, 2021

Georgia has filed a legal action asking a federal judge to enforce a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with the U.S. Department of Justice to see if DOJ officials conspired with what a press release calls "prominent liberal groups" before suing the state over its recently enacted election law.

Georgia watchdog group: Counties missing thousands of ballot images from 2020 election

By W.J. Kennedy | Nov 11, 2021

Seventy-four Georgia counties cannot produce thousands of original ballot images, whose retention is required by law, from the 2020 general election, an investigation by the election watchdog group VoterGA has found.

From Great Lakes Wire

Wall Street Journal: State investigations into alleged election fraud not 'prelude to power grab'

By W.J. Kennedy | 2 years ago

The firing of election workers in Fulton County Georgia, and the charging of three with election fraud in Michigan, shows that election fraud is real and worthy of investigation and corrective measures, writes the Wall Street Journal’s editorial board.

Cameron: Votes of noncitizens 'dilute' votes of those who earned the right

By W.J. Kennedy | Sep 13, 2021

State Rep. Mike Cameron (R-Rossville) stands with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and those who have taken a firm stance against voting rights for noncitizens, rights that local governments around the country are increasingly granting.

Conservatives support Georgia voter law, oppose legal challenges

By W.J. Kennedy | Aug 16, 2021

It appears increasingly likely that election reforms that Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, a Republican, signed into law (Senate Bill 202) in March will stand up to a host of lawsuits, including one from the U.S. Justice Department, alleging it suppresses minority voters.

Cuccinelli: 'Majority of voters' support ID requirements in Georgia's election law

By W.J. Kennedy | Aug 12, 2021

Democrats, with President Joe Biden leading the way, have been waging a campaign to convince voters that the recently enacted Georgia voter law is merely masquerading as reform, while its real intent is voter suppression.

Fulton County voting documents still unaccounted for – 'We are missing three days of forms; over 5,000 votes'

By W.J. Kennedy | Aug 6, 2021

The mystery deepens surrounding the whereabouts of thousands of Fulton County chain-of-custody documents from the 2020 General Elections.