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Officials reckon the individual identities and expressions of students are recognised and respected.

Riley's been speaking to Atlanta News First.

People

are behind me and people support me for who I am.

But did anybody notice there's a ton of African American undecided voters [laughs] and everybody's from Cobb, Atlanta.

Like, like I get it, it was at WANF, which is in the, in Atlanta, so you couldn't have someone from Savannah Zoom call? You couldn't have a ...

Like, there was ...

I, I saw one white guy.

... very much.

Atlanta News First statewide reporter.

This question is for both of you.

Georgia has been at the center of fights over voting rules and election administration.

Uh, Jeff, before we let you go, I'll give everybody an update here that because of the threat of weather, obviously Douglas County tonight hosting Carrollton, that's heading west near Alabama, which on the one hand is convenient because gets us a little closer to Tuscaloosa, but it also puts us in harm's way for some potential rainy weather.

In anticipation of that, our game tonight on Atlanta News First, which normally kicks off at 8:00 PM, does move up tonight to 6:00 PM.

So on the Douglas County side, Adrian Cole, Georgia-committed safety.

We didn't see him in the earlier game we did for Douglas County earlier this year, but we'll get a chance to see him tonight, and obviously you mentioned just a galaxy of stars, really on both sides, but obviously a running back of note for Carrollton.

And listen, Miami Hurricanes fans are gonna get a chance to see plenty tonight.

So this is a very talent-rich game with prospects on both teams going to major colleges, and it's earlier than normal tonight.

We're gonna kick this thing off, Atlanta News First at 6:00 PM, this news coming out as the show is going on.

So a lot of movement based on weather.

A- and to let the audience know where I track polls, I d- I, I don't look at individual polls, but Real Clear Politics keeps a rolling average of reputable polls, and their current, uh, has it about Jackson with a 1.7% lead on average, which is effectively a margin of error race.

I do wanna give real quick, quick credit to WANF as someone who was at that debate, and also somebody who works, w- who co-chairs the Atlanta Press Club Debate Committee, um, which does the debates with journalists.

WANF did this whole process.

Uh, I saw some of their media ads and their social media ads saying, "Hey, do you wanna be on this panel?" They vetted those people, they made phone calls, they checked their public records.

So they checked their social media.

Good news?

... a tweet from our friend Ella Dorsey over there at Atlanta News First.

The, uh, forecast has improved quite a bit in the last 24 hours.

The, uh, hurricane has sped up and shifted east.