Elections for the officers of the DPG and the Congressional District Chairs will occur on Saturday, January 7th, 2023 at the IBEW Auditorium in Atlanta.
Tickets are going fast for our inaugural Blue Ballot reception on Saturday, September 24 at the Historic DeKalb Courthouse. Get yours now before they sell out!!! http://bit.ly/BlueBallot
Following the 2020 election, legal challenges around the country have repeatedly failed to support the barrage of conspiracy theories and allegations of misconduct relating to the election outcome. The latest attempt to undermine election integrity is the assertion that the logistics management software developed by Michigan-based Konnech was used to influence election results.
Konnech’s product is exclusively used for the management of election poll workers, from recruitment and training to shift scheduling and timely payment processing. There is absolutely no connection between Konnech software and the actual casting or tabulation of votes. They are separate systems that do not integrate in any way.
Konnech’s contract with Los Angeles County recently came under scrutiny when county officials alleged that poll worker data may have been stored on servers in China rather than in the United States. That news follows an ongoing flood of local voter registration challenges, open records requests and emails seeking to cast suspicion and further disrupt the election process in DeKalb County.
The DeKalb County Voter Registration and Elections office, responsible for local poll worker scheduling, confirmed that the poll worker data at issue did not include any private information, but only information that is publicly available. They also have assured poll workers that the safety of their data is a top priority and are taking further steps to ensure the public’s confidence in the county’s data security protocols. This includes housing data on the DeKalb County server.
Using the alleged Konnech data breach to insinuate that DeKalb County elections have been compromised is simply the latest attempt of the far-right to spread misinformation and draw illogical conclusions about our county’s safe, secure and fair elections.
Tickets are going fast for our inaugural Blue Ballot reception on Saturday, September 24 at the Historic DeKalb Courthouse. Get yours now before they sell out!!! http://bit.ly/BlueBallot
The Democratic Party of Georgia (DPG) has opened a field office in Chamblee to help coordinate the campaign activities of multiple Democratic groups working here in DeKalb County through the midterm elections. Organizers and representatives from DPG, the Dekalb Dems, the Young Democrats of Georgia, and several candidates are working with the Coordinated Campaign office to ensure that we deploy the most robust and effective Get Out the Vote strategy in the history of DeKalb County. We strongly encourage our house district chairs, precinct captains and others to reach out to the Coordinated Campaign office to participate in the many volunteer campaign activities planned and to get canvasing materials. This office will help all of us build a cohesive strategy for the upcoming midterm elections. The office is located at
5383 New Peachtree Rd, Atlanta, GA
Atlanta Chinatown Mall, suite # 5389-N
(The location is close to the front of the mall.)
OFFICE HOURS
Sunday 11:30 am – 9:00 pm
Monday – Closed
Tuesday – Thursday 11:00 am – 9:00 pm
Friday 11:00 am – 7:30 pm
Saturday 8:30 am – 9:00 pm
The DeKalb County Democratic Committee (DCDC) seeks an experienced contractor or firm to create, implement, and manage digital fundraising and communication. It is DCDC’s goal to raise money and awareness concerning the 2022 election cycle. The selected contractor will work with the DCDC communications lead in partnership with the fundraising lead.
Elections for postseat holders and House District chairs were held this past Thursday, July 21, 2022. When redistricting occurred last year, the postseat holders and chairs for some House District committees were suddenly residing in a different House District, while other House Districts were entirely replaced by a new House District. Due to this confusion, the elections for postseat holders and House District chairs were moved up to July 2022 as opposed to January 2023. Here are the results of those elections.
Chair: Lil Woolf
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Chair: Mike Greenwald
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Chair: Linda Zuk
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Chair: Benjamin Bell
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Chair: To be determined
Postseat Holders:
To be determined
Alternates:
All vacant
Chair: Nadine Ali
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Chair: Dr. LaDena Bolton
Postseat Holders:
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All vacant
Chair: Michele Henson
Postseat Holders:
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All vacant
Chair: Bridgemon Bolger
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All vacant
Chair: Gabrielle Rogers
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Chair: Willie Render
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All vacant
Chair: Brandi Wyche
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Chair: To be determined
Postseat Holders:
All vacant
Alternates:
All vacant
Chair: Edwina Clanton
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All vacant
Chair: To be determined
Postseat Holders:
All vacant
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All vacant
Chair: Lance Hammonds
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We finally have our Democratic ticket! Our candidates are:
This fall we will also have new members of the DeKalb delegation. Representative-Elect Omari Crawford (House District 84) has no Republican opponent. Now, we have to help carry State Representatives Shea Roberts (HD 52), Long Tran (HD 80), Karen Lupton (HD 83), Imani Barnes (HD 86), and Saira Draper (HD 90) to victory.
Let’s make history this November!
We are officially in post-Roe America. But here in Georgia, it’s about to get worse. The Georgia legislature passed a law in 2019 called the LIFE Act that would make it illegal to have an abortion after six weeks of pregnancy, except in cases of rape, incest, medically unviable pregnancies, and natural miscarriage. That law was not constitutional at the time it was passed and therefore, it did not go into effect, but now that the Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade, the law will go into effect. Apparently, it is “constitutional” now. At the moment, the law is not yet being enforced, because it is held up in the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, but the expectation is that this court will allow it to become enforceable law as soon as the court makes its decision, which could be any day now.
Although it may seem counterintuitive, “six weeks pregnant” actually means about four weeks after conception. So the law is even worse than it sounds. In reality, it is a heartbeat law. If the doctor can hear a heartbeat, which begins at about four weeks after conception, then it is illegal to get an abortion, except for the exceptions listed above. And those exceptions might go away: Republican state legislators are already in the process of proposing even more restrictive anti-abortion laws. If you value your rights to bodily autonomy, whether or not you personally can be pregnant, then vote for Democrats this fall and urge your friends and family to as well! And vote Democrat down the entire ballot! Now that the Supreme Court has desecrated the official interpretation of the constitution, many of our rights and freedoms will be in the hands of state legislators to decide. If we turned Georgia’s U.S. Senate seats blue, then we can turn the Georgia legislature blue, too!
Our post seat holder elections have been moved up to this July 2022 due to the changes caused by redistricting. These elections will take place during the business meeting on July 21, 2022 at 7 pm.
