Georgia's Very Own Megathread!

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I’m guessing the people who request early ballots skew black?

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Yeah I’m really interested to see the raw difference between D & R in the primary.

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Wow so it's only getting more D? Hopefully this is a good sign.

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https://www.instagram.com/dekalb_gop/

TIL that the DeKalb GOP has an instagram account. It's about as serious as one would expect the GOP in an 80% democratic county to be.

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As of today, 32,783 ballots have been requested for the March 24th presidential primary. Partisan breakdown is:

18506   56.45% Democratic
13445    41.01% Republican
461        1.41% Non-Partisan
371        1.13% Unknown

Damn, is any recent election this D skewing for early ballots?

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Georgia is considering sending absentee ballots to all older voters for the May primary:

Jordan Fuchs, deputy secretary of state, said Sunday that – logistically and financially – the state could not afford to shift to a system in which all balloting is conducted by mail, as some have called for. But it could afford to mail ballot applications to those over 65 or even 60 – whichever is recommended by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the state Department of Public Health.

https://www.ajc.com/blog/politics/the-jolt-keep-them-out-long-lines-may-primary-ballots-may-mailed-older-voters/6ge4dTrJ33XkkkZyflmqVO/

Let me guess what kind of older voters aren't going to get said ballots.

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So the entire state senate is being ordered to self quarantine after Sen. Brandon Beech got tested for COVID on Saturday and showed up to vote Monday before his results came back positive.

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Forget expelled, Beach should be held criminally liable. What on earth was he thinking?

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It's crazy how one funeral in the middle of nowhere can be such a hotspot while the ATL counties where the 2nd biggest employer is an airline at the world's biggest airport are doing okay.

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The State Election Board voted unanimously Wednesday to allow Georgia voters to turn in their absentee ballots at drop boxes, an option that avoids human contact during the coronavirus pandemic.

Drop boxes can be set up on government property before Georgia’s primary on June 9. Voters will be able to submit their absentee ballots without having to pay for postage or hand them directly to county election workers.

https://www.ajc.com/news/state--regional-govt--politics/ballot-drop-boxes-approved-for-georgia-voters-during-coronavirus/4Bir3Ymx1zL0ZOGsXMazEO/

This is a nice development and I applaud the board for implementing it.  Using a drop box will also ensure that an absentee ballot isn't lost or delayed in the mail.

I wonder if they were afraid of losing a lawsuit. Seems awfully kind hearted for crooked Kemp and co.

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I do wonder if the Governors race in 2022 will be Lean D.

Kemp will win reelection very handily by double digits.

Lol ppl don’t win by double digits around here

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Edit: This doesn’t seem to be true so I’m deleting it. Should have looked into it better.  Sorry.

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I don’t feel like doing the math so I hope someone has already done this but if you remove Metro Atlanta how many points did Abrams lose by?

This graphic made me think about that. I find it interesting that Tomlinson didn’t disclose how she performed outside of the Metro. Every Democrat will lose this way but I guess she’s saying she’ll lose by less.

Depends on what is meant by "metro Atlanta". @InsaneKaine on Twitter crunched the numbers for the Census Bureau-defined version of metro Atlanta:

https://twitter.com/InsaneKaine/status/1161435437354950657

So if we subtract those numbers from the statewide total, I get these numbers for the "non-Metro" result:

- Kemp (R): 942,256 (61.36% of the two-party vote)
- Abrams (D): 593,251 (38.64%)

So the answer, as it turns out, is "pretty badly": Kemp won the non-Metro vote by nearly 23 points.

Geez, wonder what that looks like if you subtract the rural black counties.

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I’m really starting to not want Abrams to run again and this is part of it. He’s horrendous but I think it’s just gonna turn into a retread.

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What is Kemp doing? He's following the same path as McCrory and we all know had that ended.

The problem is we need a good candidate like a Roy Cooper to go against him, and if there is one thing this year has proved, dems have no bench there

I don’t think there’s necessarily a bench problem, I just think most of the state legislature talent is still pretty young and none of them wants to make the jump to run for the senate because it sucks.

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Seems like the "hacking" was what we all knew the whole time.

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Abortion bill officially thrown out. I’m so glad the state spent so much money to defend something that we all know was going to end up this way. Kemp amazes me with his wise governing at every turn.

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Kemp... what the bleep is wrong with him? Yes, I realize the list is long.

He knows he’s the last R Governor for the foreseeable future and is doing everything in his power to be lowered into the (proverbial) grave with two middle fingers up.

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I genuinely don't know if Kemp is just incompetent or outwardly malicious and honestly I don't know which is worse.

Does he want to wreck the state as it rapidly slips out of his fingers so Ds will have to come in and clean up his messes?

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https://twitter.com/marceelias/status/1310685974305927177?s=20
The state's been ordered to have paper backups of the elections system.

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Took me three hours today to vote and I don’t even live in a big county. My grandparents said it took an hour and they’ve live in a rural county.

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My mom also waited 3 hours today but my sister was an hour and a half. Guess she just got there at the right time.

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Looks like Kemp isn’t gonna be able to vote lol.

 

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I finally got the DOL to get me a replacement UI debit card because I never received mine in April.

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Even when I agree with certain issues, like changing the Sec. of State position that Georgia Republicans have frequently abused (Kemp) for electoral gain, it still leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Republicans rarely do this just out of a desire for good government. It's almost always a reaction to losing an election (or fearing a loss), where they start wringing their hands as they desperately try to think of some way to leverage their positions in government to cling to power.

Yeah, I don’t think the SoS should be an elected position either but it’s clearly in bad faith why they want to reform the office.