By Jill Nolin | Editor
“I always tell people, even though they are checking nine out of 10 boxes with our party, that one box, if you take somebody’s aunt or uncle or cousin or grandmother and haul them off to a country they haven’t seen in 25 years, it’s hard pressed to worry about kitchen table issues and private property rights and all the things Republicans hold near and dear.” - State Rep. Kasey Carpenter, a Dalton Republican referring to Latino voters.
Dalton resident Roberto Paramo holds a campaign pamphlet in Spanish given to him by a Democratic canvasser. Ignacio Perez/Georgia Recorder
2026 ELECTION
By Ignacio Perez
Mary Dennard canvassed alone through one of Dalton’s neighborhoods on the eve of Hurricane Isaias. The other canvassers, who speak Spanish, canceled due to the weather. Her blue shirt peeked out from under her windbreaker, reading “Somos vecinos, we are neighbors,” and Dennard carried Spanish language pamphlets to leave with Latino voters or at unanswered doors.
Nearly a quarter of registered voters in Dalton’s Whitfield County are Latino, according to data from the secretary of state office. And the northwest Georgia county had the seventh most Latino voters in the state as of 2024, according to a report from GALEO, a nonprofit working to increase civic engagement among Hispanics in Georgia.
Today, Republicans and Democrats are making a play for Latino support in the midsize city of Dalton. Grassroots engagement and targeted campaigning are part of an effort on both sides of the aisle to boost Latino turnout and win Hispanic votes ahead of the midterms.
First Liberty Building and Loan the day after the Securities and Exchange Commission filed its complaint against the Newnan-based lender. Jill Nolin/Georgia Recorder
COURTS
By Alander Rocha
Edwin Brant Frost IV, the founder of a conservative lending firm in Georgia, was sentenced on Monday to 15 years in prison for his role in running a Ponzi scheme that defrauded investors out of millions of dollars.
Frost, a 69-year-old and founder of the now-defunct First Liberty Building & Loan, was accused of leading a $140 million Ponzi scheme that officials say started around 2021 and scammed about 300 investors. Frost, who was convicted of wire fraud in May after he pleaded guilty, will also have to pay back over $76 million in restitution to victims. After he serves his sentence, he will have three additional years of supervised release.
Election workers process absentee ballots at the Fulton County Elections Hub and Operations Center in Union City, Georgia. Maya Homan/Georgia Recorder
VOTING
By Maya Homan
The U.S. Department of Justice will send Election Day monitors to six Georgia counties, all of which are considered Democratic strongholds. But election officials so far say they do not see the move as unusual.
Last month, Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon announced that roughly 1,000 monitors would be deployed across the country in what she called “the biggest DOJ election observer effort in history.” In Georgia, those monitors will be dispatched to Bibb, Chatham, Cobb, DeKalb, Fulton and Gwinnett counties.
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