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Dec 14 (Reuters) – Georgia’s top election official on Wednesday called on lawmakers to eliminate the state’s unusual runoff election system, a week after Democrats again prevailed in a runoff for a closely fought U.S. Senate race.
Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, a Republican, said runoff elections put a significant strain on election officials. Under Georgia law, if no candidate secures at least half of the votes in November’s regular election, a runoff between the two top vote-getters is triggered.
“No one wants to be dealing with politics in the middle of their family holiday,” Raffensperger said in a statement. “It’s even tougher on the counties who had a difficult time completing all of their deadlines, an election audit and executing a runoff in a four-week time period.”
Read more: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/georgias-top-election-official-calls-end-runoffs-state-2022-12-14/
