saraacarter.com No Lessons Learned: GA officials say senate results could take weeks - Sara A. Carter
Ben Wilson
Despite the past two months of fighting and contesting over the presidential election results, Georgia again may not have final results for the upcoming senate run-off election for weeks after the vote.
A report by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution suggests officials in the state are expecting the results to end up in litigation before the winners are truly known.
“Even if there’s a blowout election, I think we’ll have people saying: ‘Well, obviously it was stolen. We have close elections in this state,’ ” Gabriel Sterling, the state’s voting system manager told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “So no matter what direction you go, that’s going to happen.”
The Atlanta reporters interviewed over a dozen election officials in the state who are “gearing up for a tortured election aftermath.”
“Given what happened after the presidential election, I wouldn’t at all be surprised to see attempts to challenge the results, especially if Democrats win,” Emory University political scientist Alan Abramowitz said to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “We’re already seeing questions about signature verification, challenges of new voter registration. This could all just be a glimpse of the future.”
Read the full report here.
You can follow Ben Wilson on Twitter @BenDavisWilson
saraacarter.com No Lessons Learned: GA officials say senate results could take weeks - Sara A. Carter
Ben Wilson
2 minutes
Despite the past two months of fighting and contesting over the presidential election results, Georgia again may not have final results for the upcoming senate run-off election for weeks after the vote.
A report by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution suggests officials in the state are expecting the results to end up in litigation before the winners are truly known.
“Even if there’s a blowout election, I think we’ll have people saying: ‘Well, obviously it was stolen. We have close elections in this state,’ ” Gabriel Sterling, the state’s voting system manager told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “So no matter what direction you go, that’s going to happen.”
The Atlanta reporters interviewed over a dozen election officials in the state who are “gearing up for a tortured election aftermath.”
“Given what happened after the presidential election, I wouldn’t at all be surprised to see attempts to challenge the results, especially if Democrats win,” Emory University political scientist Alan Abramowitz said to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “We’re already seeing questions about signature verification, challenges of new voter registration. This could all just be a glimpse of the future.”
Read the full report here.
You can follow Ben Wilson on Twitter @BenDavisWilson
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