The New Georgia Project Helped Turn the State Purple. Now, It's in Peril.

[RandySF]

A Black-led organization that was instrumental in turning the red state of Georgia purple – helping Democrats elect President Joe Biden in 2020 and sweep the state’s runoff elections for Senate the following year – is in turmoil. Four of its executives have resigned or been dismissed in the past six months due to internal strife.

The New Georgia Project, a nonprofit group that registered more than 40,000 Black and brown voters during election years, is bleeding leadership and losing funding at a pivotal moment in the 2024 presidential election campaign.

With 28 days left until the election, the New Georgia Project is drastically behind on its voter outreach compared to previous years, which could result in Black voters losing ground in a state where they have fought hard to make gains.

Current and former staff said that due to a lack of leadership, direction, and overall mismanagement, NGP has fallen drastically behind in its mission for voter outreach in Georgia.



https://capitalbnews.org/new-georgia-project-leadership-turmoil/

[Cattledog]

1. 120,000 new voters have registered in GA

The state has seen at least 120,000 new registrants between July 21 and September 8, according to data compiled by L2 Data that Newsweek has reviewed.

Democrats registered more voters in that period—about 51,000—while Republicans registered 13,000. At least 64,000 of the registrants are unaffiliated voters.

But the surge of new voters, especially young people and people of color, could give Harris an edge in Georgia, which Biden won narrowly in 2020.

https://www.newsweek.com/kamala-harris-georgia-boost-new-voters-1958996