Journalist & data wrangler at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Slowest banjo picker in ATL. Pathological cornbread-maker. Has played croquet in Blundale, Ga.
Jul 28, 2021 • 18 tweets • 7 min read
To the city, county and police agency record custodians of Georgia:
Hi! I'm Jennifer P at the AJC, and there's a good chance you recently got a records request from me.
This Twitter thread is for you!
First, please know, the request I sent you, I've sent it to a whole ton of other cities and counties. It's not just you.
You can stop worrying about that now.
Nov 6, 2020 • 23 tweets • 5 min read
I'm seeing some accusations here on The Twitters of mysterious ballots just "showing up" in Atlanta in the POTUS race. Uhhhhh ... No.
Please let me explain how we've been tracking the uncounted mail-ins the past few days. #gapol
There's a giant data file that is posted on the Georgia Sec'y of State's website each morning. It lists every early/absentee/by-mail voter, by what means they voted & when. Shows who requested a mail-in ballot, & when, and whether they returned it and if it was "accepted"
Jan 31, 2019 • 8 tweets • 7 min read
Some really important journalism can be produced by local news outlets in preparation for a Super Bowl.
For the run-up to #SuperBowlLIII , this story breaks some very interesting new ground.
Some reasons why absentee mail-in ballots were rejected in Georgia, per data from the Georgia Secretary of State's office:
CHANGED MIND (one voter in Stewart County) 1/ #gapol
VOTER IS DECEASED (42 ballots with variants of this one -- actually most of fhese were marked cancelled and not rejected). One man in South Georgia is marked as VOTER IS DECEASED AS OF THIS MORNING. #gapol