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News Articles: runoff election

 Several winners of the June 18 Georgia Legislative primary runoffs will spend the early months of 2025 working long hours inside the state Capitol’s Gold Dome. (File Georgia Recorder)

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Georgia voters in eight legislative districts head to the polls to choose their state lawmakers

Eight legislative seats will be on the ballot Tuesday to determine the incoming lawmakers for hundreds of thousands of Georgians. Tuesday’s runoffs feature at least two intraparty fights from both sides of the aisle, including a race for a metro Atlanta Senate seat that has opened up for the first time in two decades and a coastal matchup where a GOP House incumbent is fighting to keep his seat

June 17, 2024
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  • Ross Williams and
  • Stanley Dunlap
Members of the NAACP’s Georgia and Macon-Bibb County chapters held a press conference in front of the county Board of Elections Office May 10, 2024. (JESSE FRAGA)

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  • Elections

There’s ‘grave concern’ over Macon ballot mix-ups. Officials warn it may happen again

Voting rights groups are investigating the Macon-Bibb County Board of Elections for “voter irregularities’‘ after voters received ballots for the wrong districts during the May primary election, and the issue may not be resolved.

June 11, 2024
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By:
  • Jesse Fraga
The morning sun hits the dome of the Capitol on a day where House Republicans will hold a closed conference meeting to vote by secret ballot to nominate a House speaker, at the Capitol in Washington, U.S., October 11, 2023. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

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  • Politics

Republicans Dugan, Jack square off in 3rd Congressional District debate

The two Republicans who made the June 18 primary runoff in Georgia’s 3rd Congressional District agreed on more issues than they disagreed on during a debate Sunday sponsored by the Atlanta Press Club.

June 10, 2024
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By:
  • Dave Williams
Voting machines

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What to know about early voting in Georgia's June 18 runoff election

When can you vote early in Georgia's primary runoff election? Answer: It depends.

June 07, 2024
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By:
  • GPB News Staff
The Macon-Bibb County Board of Elections concluded there was no way to be ready to hold Saturday voting for the June 18 runoff election.

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  • Elections

‘I hope never to be in this position again,' elections board member says of no Saturday voting

Amid a storm of problems, the Macon-Bibb Board of Elections could not meet a tight deadline as advanced voting runs June 10 through June 14.

June 07, 2024
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By:
  • Liz Fabian
A couple leaves the polls after voting on the first day of early voting in Atlanta on Monday, Oct. 17, 2022.

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A federal judge declines to block Georgia's shortened 4-week runoff election period

A federal judge in Georgia has declined to block part of a sweeping election law that shortened the state's runoff election period to four weeks from nine weeks. The judge said Friday that plaintiffs hadn't proved that the shorter period disproportionately harmed Black voters.

January 17, 2024
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  • Associated Press
Sheree Ralston is the executive director of the Fannin County Development Authority. On Monday, Dec. 5, 2022 she filed paperwork to run for her late husband and Georgia House Speaker David Ralston' s 7th District House seat.

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  • Elections

Runoff to decide late state House Speaker David Ralston’s seat

The widow of the late Georgia House Speaker David Ralston is headed into a runoff in a special election for Ralston’s Northwest Georgia House seat.

January 04, 2023
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  • Dave Williams
The line to vote at the board of elections in Macon, Ga. stretched around the corner from the front door and into a half hour wait by around 1pm on the final day of early voting Friday.

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  • Elections

Who voted (and didn't) in Georgia's U.S. Senate runoff

More registered Georgia voters stayed home than voted in the Dec. 6 runoff, but the state still set midterm voting records this year.

December 21, 2022
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  • Stephen Fowler
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Georgia Today: Raffensperger wants changes, Augusta arena reopening, USPS honors John Lewis

On the Wednesday Dec. 14 edition of Georgia Today podcast: Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger wants election changes, James Brown Arena in Augusta is reopening, and the USPS is honoring John Lewis.

December 14, 2022
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By:
  • Peter Biello and
  • Jeremy Powell
Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger announced an investigation into 1,000 cases of alleged double-voting in Georgia's primary.

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  • Elections

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger pushes for end of general election runoffs

Ahead of the January 2023 legislative session, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger asked the General Assembly to consider ending general election runoffs in a statement released Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2022.

December 14, 2022
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  • GPB News Staff
 Hercules the donkey visits with a Georgia State University student Nov. 29. Warnock supporters made big moves to secure the 18-24 vote, including bringing farm animals to major college campuses for students to pet. Ross Williams/Georgia Recorder

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  • Elections

Youth must be served: Warnock schooled Walker in winning young voter turnout

Warnock’s campaign and the subsequent four-week runoff were characterized by stops at college campuses across the state — an effort that seems to have paid off in support from the youngest voting bloc.

December 13, 2022
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  • Ross Williams

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  • Elections

Georgia’s young voters turned out for the U.S. Senate runoff. Here are their thoughts on the results

In a hard-fought race that concluded with Georgia's runoff election on Dec. 6, 2022, Democratic U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock defeated Republican challenger Herschel Walker to retain his seat in the U.S. Senate for a full six-year term. The demographic that helped push Warnock ahead of Walker in the runoff were young voters between the ages of 18 to 24 years old.

December 09, 2022
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By:
  • Ambria Burton
U.S. Postal Service bins are lined up to hold vote-by-mail ballots for scanning during the midterm election at the Miami-Dade County Elections Department, Nov. 8, 2022, in Miami. Republicans are re-evaluating their antipathy to mail voting. After former President Donald Trump condemned that method of casting ballots in 2020, conservatives shied away from it. That's given Democrats a multiweek jump on voting during elections.

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  • Elections

After midterms, GOP reconsidering antipathy to mail ballots

After disappointing results in this year's elections, Republicans are reevaluating their antipathy to mail voting.

December 09, 2022
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  • Associated Press
 U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Sen. Gary Peters of Michigan, the chair of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, talk to reporters at the U.S. Capitol the morning after Sen. Raphael Warnock won the Georgia Senate runoff. Ariana Figueroa/States Newsroom

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  • Politics

‘Worth the wait’: U.S. Senate Democrats celebrate a 51-seat majority with Georgia win

WASHINGTON — U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer jubilantly announced Wednesday that the Georgia runoff election victory will next year end an evenly divided U.S. Senate, giving Democrats more subpoena power in committees and a quicker turnaround in approving federal and judicial appointments.

December 07, 2022
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By:
  • Ariana Figueroa
U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock waves to supporters after defeating Republican challenger Herschel Walker in a Dec. 6, 2022, runoff election.

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  • Elections

Warnock defeats Walker in U.S. Senate runoff

Incumbent Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock has defeated his Republican opponent Herschel Walker.

December 06, 2022
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By:
  • Stephen Fowler and
  • Riley Bunch
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