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Wed., December 7, 2011 8:33am
Emory Dunahoo Jr. has won a runoff election for a seat in the Georgia House representing a district in Hall County. Newnan businessman Mike Crane will take his seat in the state Senate after winning the District 28 runoff. And in Senate District 50, John Wilkinson captured 58 percent of the vote to win his runoff against Rick Austin.
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Wed., June 22, 2011 9:56am
Republican Chuck Williams and Democrat Dan Matthews will meet in a runoff for an open seat in the state House of Representatives. Williams, an Oconee County tree farmer and former banker, led the field of four candidates in a special election Tuesday with 39 percent of the 3,920 votes cast for the northeast Georgia seat.
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Tue., November 23, 2010 4:33pm
Two women in coastal Georgia’s McIntosh County have turned themselves in to police on charges of voter fraud. The women were charged with three felony counts of mishandling absentee ballots, after a local postal worker tipped off authorities that one of them mailed a stack of ballots before the November 2nd general election. Secretary of State Brian Kemp won’t comment on an open investigation, but says his office has recently collected hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines for absentee ballot fraud.
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Wed., August 11, 2010 1:43pm
Former US Congressman Nathan Deal will be Georgia’s Republican candidate for governor in the November elections. Georgia’s former Secretary of State Karen Handel brought former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin to Atlanta to drive voters to the polls, but it wasn't enough. The race was so close, no winner could be declared Tuesday night. But Wednesday morning, results show Nathan Deal is a couple of thousand votes ahead, so Handel conceded the race.
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Wed., August 11, 2010 1:10pm
The general election battle for the Georgia governor's office is set: Roy Barnes vs. Nathan Deal. GPB's Edgar Treiguts talks with Tom Crawford, editor of the Georgia Report, for his early analysis of the race ahead of November.
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Wed., August 11, 2010 11:25am
Karen Handel has conceded the Republican gubernatorial contest for governor to Nathan Deal. Tuesday's runoff election results had candidates within four tenths of a percentage point of each other. In a statement released from her campaign this morning, Handel says she although absentee ballots have yet to be counted, she's putting her support behind Deal.
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Wed., August 11, 2010 11:25am
Karen Handel has conceded the Republican gubernatorial contest for governor to Nathan Deal. Tuesday's runoff election results had candidates within four tenths of a percentage point of each other. In a statement released from her campaign this morning, Handel says she although absentee ballots have yet to be counted, she's putting her support behind Deal.
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Wed., August 11, 2010 9:15am
Three incumbent lawmakers in Georgia's Statehouse were toppled during a primary runoff.
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Tue., August 10, 2010 9:19pm
Nathan Deal appeared briefly and spoke to about 500 supporters at the Gainesville Civic Center shortly after 10 p.m. He said he'll wait a little while longer and watch results as Fulton County and Gwinnett county, two large metro Atlanta districts, still have to report all their precincts. The race is just too close to call.
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Tue., August 10, 2010 8:01pm
The numbers show former Congressman Nathan Deal with a slight lead, but Karen Handel's camp says thousands of absentee ballots remain to be counted which they're hopeful will turn the race in their favor.
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