Georgia Early Vote Should Pass 800,000; Far Less Than 2008 Election
Georgia early voting seems certain to pass 800,000 ballots cast, a sizable number by its own merits, but still down from nearly 2.1 million in the presidential election two years ago.
More than three-quarter million early ballots have been cast, according to the Georgia Secretary of State’s elections division. Total ballots cast were 761,042 with 643,936 voted in person, 117,106 mail-in ballots and 58,606 mail-in ballots outstanding. General voters can return mail-in ballots through Tuesday. Military personnel ballots will be counted through Friday.
This is the second general election and the first mid-term in which all eligible Georgians are permitted to vote early in-person or by mail-in without having to provide a reason or excuse.
Two years ago the state recorded 2,084,1279 early ballots and that represented 53% of total ballots, said Matt Carrothers, director of media relations for the Secretary of State’s office.
Presidential election years generate more voters than mid-term elections. Georgia turnout in the three most recent presidential elections was 69% in 2000 when Texas Governor George W. Bush defeated Vice President Al Gore, 77% four years later when President Bush defeated Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry and 76% two years ago when Illinois Sen. Barack Obama defeated Arizona Sen. John McCain.
Fewer Georgians vote in mid-term election years. Governor Sonny Perdue upset incumbent Governor Roy Barnes in 2002 with 54% of eligible Georgians voting. The total voter percentage declined to 48% when Perdue won re-election over Democratic challenger Mark Taylor in 2006.
Election history dating to 1988 is available on the Secretary of State website, www.sos.ga.gov/elections.
Mike Klein is Editor at the Georgia Public Policy Foundation.
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The Nobel Peace Prize, like other awards shows, often produces strange history. Adolf Hitler was nominated in 1939. That is about as strange as it gets. But there has been controversy about recipients and several who were never honored since the first Nobel Peace Prize way back in 1901.
The foremost example is probably Mahatma Gandhi – the Indian national leader. Gandhi was nominated five times between 1937 and 1948, the fifth nomination coming just days before his murder. Why Gandhi never won remains baffling today and the Nobel Peace Prize Committee has done nothing to correct that oversight in more than sixty years since his death. Read more »
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