Following death of veteran wrestler this past Spring

Georgia Republican Herschel Walker has accepted an invitation in his U.S. Senate race to debate Democratic incumbent Raphael Warnock.

Georgia senators are scrapping further big changes in state election law.

Many of the proposals target absentee voting by mail after relentless false claims by former President Donald Trump and his allies, including some Republican state senators. Senate Bill 71 would limit who is allowed to vote absentee by mail, a method currently available to any Georgian without needing an excuse. AdBroad, no-excuse absentee voting was introduced in Georgia by a Republican-controlled legislature in 2005. “Now, GA Senate Republicans introduced (a) bevy of bills to try to stop multi-racial, multi-age coalition that elected them from voting. House Speaker David Ralston said in January that he was not convinced of the need to end no-excuse absentee voting, for one.

ATLANTA – It’s going to be another weird pandemic session of the Georgia General Assembly. A House and Senate still struggling to operate amid the ongoing coronavirus outbreak will see its members sworn in Monday to two-year terms. And all 180 House members won’t be sworn in at once, but rather in four socially distanced waves. “There hasn’t really been enough time to have any policy discussions,” said state Sen. Brian Strickland, a McDonough Republican. The House and Senate plan joint budget hearings for the following week, when the full chambers are unlikely to meet.