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Body found during Georgia missing person investigation
ELBERT CO. – A body has been found during an investigation of a missing Georgia man by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.
Release:
While conducting a missing person investigation, police have found a body in Elbert County on Wednesday, April 24, 2024.
The Baldwin County Sheriff’s Office asked the GBI to assist with a Baldwin County missing person case. Dawson Brandon Lee, age 24, from Milledgeville, GA, had been missing for several days. Records from Lee’s vehicle indicated he left Milledgeville and traveled to Elbert County on Wednesday, April 17. Multiple agencies and four GBI regional investigative offices have assisted with attempting to find Lee.
On Wednesday, at about 12:00 p.m., police found a man’s body in the woods near Lee’s abandoned vehicle in Elbert County.
A GBI medical examiner will perform an autopsy to dermine the cause and manner of death and positively identify the man found. Although the initial investigation indicates the man found is Dawson Brandon Lee, the results of the autopsy will confirm it.
The early investigation indicates no signs of foul play.
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Georgia Bulldogs Christmas Trivia: Festive Facts and Holiday History for Dawg Fans
A handful of Georgia Bulldogs football questions to test the knowledge of Dawg fans during the holiday season.
The Christmas season has arrived as families all over the world gather round to celebrate the holiday. And while there will not be any Georgia Football to watch until the new year, there is still plenty of time for Bulldog fans to brush up on their Dawgs trivia.
So, as many families enjoy time off for the holiday season, here are a handful of Bulldogs related question to test the knowledge of one of college football most passionate fanbases.
Georgia Bulldogs Christmas Day Trivia
Questions:
Editor’s Note**: Answers for this article will be made available at the bottom of this page.
Question 1: Kirby Smart has coached Georgia in three total Sugar Bowl matchups. What is his overall record in those games?
Question 2: Which Bulldog receiver currently leads the Bulldogs in receptions and receiving yards this season?
Question 3: Georgia won 11 games during the 2025 regular season. How many times have the Bulldogs accomplished this regular-season feat under Kirby Smart?
Question 4: Nate Frazier is less than 200 yards away from surpassing 1000 rushing yards this season. Who is the last Georgia running back to accomplish this feat?
Question 5: Ellis Robinson currently has four interceptions this season. Who is the last Georgia Bulldog to achieve this feat?
Question 6: How many total touchdowns has Gunner Stockton accounted for this season?
Answers:
Answer 1: Kirby Smart is 1-2 in Sugar Bowl matchups. The Dawgs’ last appearance was during the 2024 season against the Notre Dame Fighting Irish.
Answer 2: Zachariach Branch currently leads the Bulldogs in both receptions and receiving yards. He is just four catches shy of breaking Georgia’s all-time single-season record
Answer 3: Georgia has won 11 or more regular-season games under Kirby Smart on six other occasions (2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023)
Answer 4: D’Andre Swift is the last running back to have surpassed 1,000 rushing yards. He did so during the 2019 season.
Answer 5: Tykee Smith is the last player to record four or more interceptions during a season (2023). No player has recorded more than four interceptions in a single season under Kirby Smart.
Answer 6: Gunner Stockton has accounted for 31 total touchdowns this season. With 23 through the air and eight on the ground.
The Bulldogs will be back in action on Thursday, January 1st, to take on the Ole Miss Rebels in the Allstate Sugar Bowl.
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Georgia official responds to 315,000 Ballots not properly signed in 2020
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger has said a “clerical error” in the state does not “erase valid, legal votes,” responding to renewed scrutiny of Georgia’s 2020 election results, which former President Donald Trump has repeatedly and falsely claimed was “stolen” from him.
Earlier this month, Fulton County acknowledged before the Georgia State Election Board that more than 130 tabulator tapes from the 2020 election were not signed, a lapse officials said involved about 315,000 ballots and which brought renewed scrutiny and questioning of the results even though multiple audits, including a hand count, affirmed the results.
Newsweek has reached out to Fulton County Chairman Robb Pitts for comment via email on Wednesday.
Why It Matters
Trump and his allies have consistently claimed, without evidence of widespread voter fraud, that the 2020 election was stolen and that former President Joe Biden did not win in Georgia and other states.
In early January 2021, ahead of Biden taking office, Trump infamously called Raffensperger, a Republican, asking him to help “find” enough votes to overturn the election. Biden won the 2020 election with 306 electoral votes to Trump’s 232, and even if Georgia was flipped for Trump, Biden still would have won the election.
There have been multiple audits, recounts and investigations into Georgia’s 2020 election, including a statewide hand recount and audit that confirmed the original results, as well as reviews by state officials and election boards addressing procedural errors and fraud allegations.
What To Know
Earlier this month, Fulton County attorney Ann Brumbaugh told the Georgia State Election Board that the county “does not dispute that the tapes were not signed,” calling the missing signatures “a violation of the rule.”
Georgia state Rule 183-1-12-.12 states that after polls close, and in order to tabulate results, “the poll manager and the two witnesses shall cause each ballot scanner to print three tapes of the tabulated results and shall sign each tape indicating that it is a true and correct copy of the tape produced by the ballot scanner.” This was not properly done for more than 130 tapes, which accounts for around 315,000 votes.
However, the lack of signature does not negate the ballots, and they have been recounted multiple times to verify results.
In a Saturday X post, Raffensperger reiterated this, writing “all voters were verified with photo ID and lawfully cast their ballots.” He continued, “A clerical error at the end of the day does not erase valid, legal votes.”
The news of the missing signatures has ignited claims that the election was stolen among several Republicans and Make America Great Again (MAGA) leaders, including Elon Musk chiming in that “massive voting fraud [was] uncovered,” and the president who reshared a post on his Truth Social account arguing that in Georgia “intentional human intervention” led the election to to be taken from Trump.
What People Are Saying
Representative Mike Collins, a Georgia Republican, said in December 20 X post: “President Trump is owed a massive apology. Turns out over 300,000 early votes in the 2020 election were illegally certified but still included in the final results. I’m tired of empty words from weak leaders. The people of Georgia deserve action.”
Fulton County Chairman Robb Pitts told Channel 2: “We do not have anything to hide, and we will never have anything to hide as long as I’m here.”
Steve Bannon said in a GETTR post on the matter: “Mr President, Please No More Strongly Worded Letters from DoJ…Call Out the U.S. Marshals, Seize the Ballots, the Machines and Arrest the Guilty.”
Donald Trump Jr. said in a December 19 X post: “So what we all knew back in 2020, what we all stated out loud and everyone in the media, the establishment, and the Washington DC machine lied about ended up being 100% true. I’m so shocked! Yet another conspiracy theory proven right!”
What Happens Next
On Friday, Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney granted the election board access to the country’s 2020 ballots. He ruled that the election board must pay for the matter, which Fulton County has estimated it will cost nearly $400,000 to comply with the subpoena. The judge has ordered the county to produce a detailed cost list by January 7.
Brumbaugh has noted that “procedures have been updated,” and “since then, the training has been enhanced, the poll watchers are trained specifically. They’ve got to sign the tapes in the morning, and they’ve got to sign the tapes when they’re run at the end of the day.”
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