(c) In instances in which no municipal candidate receives a majority of the votes cast and the municipal charter or ordinances do not provide for nomination or election by a plurality vote, a run-off primary or election shall be held between the candidates receiving the two highest numbers of votes. Such runoff shall be held on the twenty-eighth day after the day of holding the first primary or election, unless such run-off date is postponed by court order; provided, however, that, in the case of a runoff from a municipal special election that is held in conjunction with a special election for a federal office and not in conjunction with a general primary or general election, the municipality may conduct such runoff from such municipal special election on the date of the special election runoff for the federal office. Only the electors entitled to vote in the first primary or election shall be entitled to vote in any run-off primary or election resulting therefrom; provided, however, that no elector shall vote in a run-off primary in violation of Code Section 21-2-216 . The run-off primary or election shall be a continuation of the first primary or election, and only those votes cast for the candidates receiving the two highest numbers of votes in the first primary or election shall be counted. No write-in votes may be cast in such a primary, run-off primary, or run-off election. If any candidate eligible to be in a runoff withdraws, dies, or is found to be ineligible, the remaining candidates receiving the two highest numbers of votes shall be the candidates in such runoff. The municipal candidate receiving the highest number of the votes cast in such run-off primary or run-off election to fill the nomination or public office sought shall be declared the winner. The municipality shall give written notice to the Secretary of State of such runoff as soon as such municipality certifies the preceding primary, special primary, election, or special election.
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Rules? WTF do election laws matter in places like GA?
Oh they will vote, multiple times they will vote...
How many Dems are going to spend money moving to Georgia and find this out the hard way?
Doesn't matter. Grimmace, I mean Stacey Abrams, is going to jump up and down screaming how voters were denied the right to cast their ballots. The media will run with it and the perpetual lie will become reality. It is disgusting. Why the hell did we ever allow the inmates to run the asylum?
Abrams is irrelevant. She’s a screeching, powerless, idiot who thinks she matters because the mainstream media is obsessed with race and gender.
Yeah.... I figured it wasn't as simple as they made it sound
Excellent post.
This needs to go massively public otherwise we will end up in a situation where they collect ballots from ineligible voters and mix them with legal votes.
Good to have a rule - now how do we get it enforced?
Hope a few of these fuckwads blow time & money to do this & get prosecuted for it. But like "Roadrash" said "Rules? WTF do election laws matter in places like GA?"
I was waiting for Yang and some cronies to buy apartment buildings so they could offer short-term leases, below-market rent to anyone willing to move to GA for the next two months.
It was funny to see him present the idea of moving to help the vote. Most people just don't have the resources to move across state lines on a moment's notice, but if they did only to find after the time and expense that they're ineligible to vote in the runoff, it the salt flow would have been epic.
Good. As these retards move in, with CA / NY license plates most likely, put them in a detention center. Next stop: Siberia
That statute looks like it applies to municipal candidates and not federal. Is there a similar statute for federal election runoffs?
@ Hans_MacGruber I haven't been able to find one specifically for federal elections - still reading through the codes - Full disclosure: I am not a lawyer and did not stay at a holiday inn express last night.
Thats what the law says, but we dont expect them to follow the law. And we dont expect GA to enforce the law.