Georgia’s Voting Overhaul: Paper Ballots, ERIC Debate, and 2026 Ambitions

This seg­ment, dat­ed March 26, 2025, focus­es on Georgia’s evolv­ing polit­i­cal land­scape. SB214, a bill man­dat­ing hand-filled paper bal­lots over touch­screen machines, is set for a com­mit­tee vote today at 5 PM, fol­low­ing a packed hear­ing yes­ter­day. With only four days left in the leg­isla­tive ses­sion, the Sen­ate must rush it to the House. Anoth­er bill, also up today, aims to elim­i­nate ERIC, a vot­er reg­is­tra­tion sys­tem crit­i­cized despite its tout­ed ben­e­fits. Sec­re­tary of State Brad Raf­fensperg­er and Gov­er­nor Bri­an Kemp are align­ing with Trump’s exec­u­tive order to remove non-cit­i­zens from vot­er rolls, a move seen as elec­tion-sea­son posturing—Kemp even spot­light­ed hunt­ing crim­i­nals in a “big truck.” Mean­while, Democ­rats Stacey Abrams and Lucy McBath are lever­ag­ing anti-Trump sen­ti­ment, eye­ing 2026 runs.

• They are try­ing to get rid of Pete Hegseth. Full Yemen war plans in bomb­shell Sig­nal chat between Trump offi­cials released. They are releas­ing these notes that have become pub­lic in The Atlantic by Jef­frey Gold­berg. 
• Ossoff blasts senior Trump admin­is­tra­tion offi­cials over group chat. No one is going to Pete’s defense. 
• We have SB214, the bill will be vot­ed out of com­mit­tee today at 5pm. Yes­ter­day the com­mit­tee hear­ing room was full. Georgia’s next vot­ing sys­tem. Sen­a­tors seek paper bal­lots filled out by hand. The bill will require almost all GA vot­ers to bub­ble in their choic­es at polling places instead of using touch­screen com­put­ers that print out paper bal­lots. 
• There are only 4 days left in the leg­isla­tive ses­sion, end­ing next week. The Sen­ate has to push this bill out to the house for a vote. 
• We have to get rid of ERIC as well which is in a dif­fer­ent bill that will be heard today. They want you to believe that ERIC is a good sys­tem. 
• Now all of a sud­den Brad Raf­fensperg­er is brag­ging on Don­ald Trump’s exec­u­tive order on remov­ing ille­gals from vot­ing in our elec­tions. And Bri­an Kemp is all of a sud­den want­i­ng to side with the Trump admin­is­tra­tion in remov­ing ille­gals. He is out there hunt­ing crim­i­nals in the big truck. It must be elec­tion sea­son in GA. 
• Stacey Abrams taps demo­c­rat anger over Trump as she con­sid­ers 2026 options. 
• Lucy McBath is prob­a­bly look­ing at a demo­c­rat bid for gov­er­nor.