Election Day in the two primary races is next Tuesday, February 11. The special elections were made necessary by court rulings last year ordering Cobb to abandon election maps the Democratic-leaning ...

Cobb was forced to hold the special elections after a protracted legal dispute over county commission district lines that ultimately caused a do-over of last year’s election.

The Georgia Court of Appeals on Wednesday declined to take up Richardson’s appeal of a Cobb County Superior Court decision that her seat was vacant. Richardson had argued that she should be allowed to ...