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Matt Brown
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Reporter @AP covering race, democracy and other light topics. Optimist, traveler, sci-fi nerd & disco enthusiast. mebrown@ap.org
Dec 14, 2022 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
‼️@GaSecofState Raffensperger calls to end Georgia runoff elections, notes the added stress on county election staff:

“We're also one of the only states that always seems to have a runoff…No one wants to be dealing with politics in the middle of their family holiday.” #gapol And now we’ve got some added context here: washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/…
Dec 2, 2022 • 4 tweets • 4 min read
Just before polls close on the last day of early voting and the line is wrapped around the building and stretching 2 blocks out of this Atlanta polling place. Wait times in most of the county are well over an hour—but people are still in line #gapol #gasen Now that 7pm has passed, poll workers are counting the number of folks in line. Some folks gotten out of line. One car stopped and honked, the driver yelled “Stay! You can do it!” #gapol
Nov 28, 2022 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
More than 180,000 people voted over the weekend in Georgia counties that opened their polls. The vast majority of people voted in-person, putting both enthusiasm and long lines on full display. #gapol #gasen
washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/… Some interesting breakdown of who voted so far from @GaSecofState’s office.

46% of voters are Black
57% of voters female
13% of voters are 18-29 ImageImageImage
Nov 7, 2022 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
Cobb attorney says the county has offered its solution in court over the +1000 voters not mailed an absentee ballot.

“If they can submit their ballot tomorrow, we’ve asked the court to extend the deadline until Nov. 14.”

Ballots still have to be postmarked by Election Day. Image Cobb County election director says the ballots weren’t sent out due to “human error,” says 38% of staff are new to their jobs.

On mass staff departures: “Many of them said they’re overworked, too much pressure, their own lives were suffering with the extra workload.” #gapol Image
Sep 15, 2022 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
NEW: The Georgia special grand jury investigating the 2020 election has found “serious” criminal allegations that may lead to "prison sentences," DA Willis tells us. More targets will be identified and Willis hopes to wrap up this year.

w/@thamburger
washingtonpost.com/national-secur… While the grand jury's final report isn’t finished, Willis said that she believes based on what’s already been learned people will likely face prison time.

“The allegations are very serious. If indicted and convicted, people are facing prison sentences"
washingtonpost.com/national-secur…
Aug 9, 2022 • 12 tweets • 5 min read
Down at Fulton Superior Court today, where the judge overseeing the Fulton DA’s investigation will determine if Rudy Giuliani has to testify before a special grand jury. Follow along here! #gapol Judge McBurney says "the purpose of today's hearing is to determine when (Giuliani) will be here and in what format," says Giuliani's lawyers are not contesting that he will eventually testify but say he may not travel to Georgia. #gapol
Apr 27, 2022 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
New: GA Republicans largely support Trump’s conspiracy theories about 2020. That doesn’t mean they’ll back his candidates, especially as incumbents tout their own voting measures.

Inside the GA GOP primary w/ ⁦⁦@AmyEGardner⁩ ⁦@jdawsey1⁩ washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/… Trump-backed candidates who support the “Big Lie” are running and winning primaries in Arizona, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. But in Georgia, with its long history of fights over the right to vote, Trump’s imported grievances fall flat:
washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/…
Apr 24, 2022 • 13 tweets • 7 min read
At the @wsbtv gubernatorial debate, @DavidPerdueGA comes out the gate with the Big Lie: "The 2020 election was rigged and stolen," he says. Blames Kemp for Trump's (and his) election loss. "I'm not dividing the party, the party was already divided," @DavidPerdueGA says when asked if his campaign is dividing the GOP. Claims Kemp "would not investigate anything" about the 2020 election. Some facts: usatoday.com/story/news/fac…
Mar 23, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Some news! I’m starting a new beat covering voting rights, election security, misinformation, public trust and all things Georgia as part of the @washingtonpost’s new democracy team.

I couldn't be more excited to tell the story of the state that raised me. Coming home, ATL! So much thanks and appreciation to my incredible colleagues at @USATODAY and the unprecedented two years we had together. I’ll miss many of y’all and will continue to admire your work. 💙
Feb 18, 2022 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
A full-scale Russian invasion would be the final step Putin’s years long effort to destabilize Ukraine with disinformation, cyberattacks and covert operations. An A1 on how these key strategies are the new normal for war in the 21st century w/ @RickRouan @JoshMeyerDC “While some of us have been familiar with Putin’s playbook for some time, the whole world is now getting introduced to the idea of hybrid war. And we're actually seeing it play out in real time,” said one former CIA analyst. usatoday.com/story/news/pol…
Feb 16, 2022 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
In the briefing room today with COVID, Ukraine, job growth and inflation in the news. What’s a good question to ask? "There could be a range of false flags and pretext that we would expect would proceed an invasion, and again we remain in that window," @PressSec warns, saying Russia will set a "fabricated pretext" for invasion in Ukraine, which the White House has warned about before.