Early voting for Senate runoff begins Nov. 28
Election Day has come and gone, but one state race will bring voters back to the polls next month.
Georgia’s U.S. Senate race between incumbent Sen. Raphael Warnock (D) and challenger Herschel Walker (R) will be the lone ballot item for the runoff election. Neither Warnock nor Walker finished with the 50 percent plus one vote majority needed to avoid a runoff.
Election Day is Tuesday, Dec. 6. In-person early voting for the runoff will take place Monday, Nov. 28, to Friday, Dec. 2. Voters who registered by Nov. 7 can vote in the runoff election.
In-person early voting hours will be 7 a.m.-6 p.m. at the Gilmer County Registrar’s Office, 1 Broad Street, Ste. 107.
The deadline for requesting an absentee ballot is Nov. 28, and completed absentee ballots must be received at the registrar’s office by the time polls close on Election Day.
Gilmer County saw higher than usual numbers of early voting for the Nov. 8 midterm election, which decided races for governor and lieutenant governor, attorney general, secretary of state, labor commissioner, agriculture commissioner, state school superintendent and various Congressional seats.
A strong turnout of Gilmer voters also went to the polls on Election Day.
According to the registrar’s office’s election summary report, a total of 6,123 Gilmer voters cast their ballots at polling places on Tuesday, Nov. 8.
Between those who voted early, either in person or by mail, and the Election Day turnout, 63.25 percent (14,122) of the county’s 22,326 registered voters participated in midterm election voting.
Only one local race was decided by the midterm election (aside from others in which a candidate ran unopposed or had won an earlier election and was then unchallenged on the midterm ballot).
Michael Bushey won that race, for a position on the Limestone Valley Soil and Water Conservation District board. Between Election Day and early voting, Bushey finished with 7,017 votes.