Biff_Poindexter
Diamond Member
Georgia voters are tired after U.S. Senate runoff
About $397 million in campaign and outside money has been spent so far on Georgia’s 2022 Senate election. That's a lot of ads.
www.axios.com
"After two high-profile runoffs in two years, four elections in 2022 alone, thousands of ads and text messages jamming Georgians' televisions, phones and radio stations, some Georgia voters are tired. At least about $400 million in campaign and outside money has been spent so far on Georgia's 2022 Senate election, per Open Secrets."
"GA SOS COO @GabrielSterling says SOS office believes "there should be a conversation" about the future of runoff elections in GA: "if we polled Georgians & they had the choice between a 9 week runoff, 4 week runoff & no runoff I have a pretty good idea where that’s going to land"
Newsflash, during the 2020 run offs, the Georgia GOP set the run off time period at 9 weeks...they lost...so the Georgia GOP shortened the run-off time period to 4 weeks in hopes it would hurt Democrats more than Republicans...they still lost...now they want to just end run-offs altogether....funny how Republicans keep changing the rules "AFTER A LOSS" over and over and over again.....and why does Georgia have run-off elections anyway? Glad you asked...The answer...racists......
"When Groover lost reelection to the Georgia House of Representatives in 1958 despite winning the majority of the white vote, data from segregated polling places in Macon revealed that Black voters contributed to the upset victory by his opponent, Kousser said. As part of the civil rights movement of the 1960s, advocates, judges, and policymakers pressed for expanded and more equitable voting rights. Fear of losing white political supremacy prompted some white state and local legislators to move strategically to protect their racial agency in politics. When Groover won his seat back in 1963, he led the charge to break up what he described as the “Negro Voting Block,” by transitioning Georgia from plurality voting, which allows the candidate with the most votes to be declared the winner, to majority voting – forcing voters to choose between the two candidates with the most votes in a separate runoff election."
Georgia’s runoff elections have segregationist roots
Since the 1960s, Georgia’s majority voting law has required a candidate get 50 percent of the vote or more in order to be declared the winner.
www.pbs.org
And now since this run-off scam ain't working anymore; frustrated Conservatives are going back to the drawing board to think of other ways they can do what they have ALWAYS BEEN TRYING TO DO - dilute the black vote....
