One of the most fascinating storylines coming out of these runoffs has been President Trump’s ability — and, really, desire — to trample all over the GOP’s messaging in order to pressure Republican lawmakers to support his long-shot effort to overturn the results of the November election. Kelly Loeffler (R) 49.60%, In a battle of public speaking, it's hard to match the skills of the reverend from Ebenezer Baptist Church, Loeffler told a crowd in Atlanta just now that she still has a path to victory: “We’re going to win this election.”. Republicans are at roughly 700 votes there, to about 550 for each Democrat. Good enough for the majority. Still no runoff day votes in in the metro Atlanta area though, right Charlie? I love when Steven uses words like co-terminous. These folks have been running basically nonstop since the summer. ), Something to keep a close eye on tonight: based on the (still very early!!) Is there a face-in-hands emoji on here, Zach, Our friend Eric Geller is not with us right now, but he'd tell you all the importance of a paper backup, It asks "is it true that voting machines 'stopped working' earlier in Georgia today?" The Douglas County Board of Commissioners unanimously voted 5-0 on presenting a proclamation to the Kings Way Varsity Boys Basketball Team for winning the 2021 Georgia Christian Athletic Association (GCAA) State Championship. Tonight is unprecedented: double-barreled runoffs in one state to decide control of the Senate. I think it certainly changes how Democrats recruit candidates. What will substantial variations tell us? 2016 General Election Results. Already, one member of the family (by marriage) is considering running for Senate in your home state! Select from the menus below to view the offices and candidates up for a specific election. What do we know at this point? So what do we know about the early vote, either anecdotally or through available data? Signed Certification; Summary Results; ... NEVADA The fourth installment of the 2020-2021 property tax is due and payable on March 1, 2021. Andrew And in between, we've all lived at least five lifetimes. As the night goes on, there's increasing worry that conservative North Georgia is underperforming. GA Secretary of State Brad Raffensberger on CNN predicts that we'll have a "better idea" of where things stand by noon tomorrow. Utterly anecdotal, but an acquaintance of mine said he voted Perdue but couldn't vote Loeffler because she was so bad. If he were a GIF, Sterling would be Burning Elmo, Speaking of Gabriel Sterling, he's been active tonight. Strategists are already telling me about how problematic this will be if the race is close, which we all expect it to be. We shouldn't read too far into it right now but I'm curious if that holds up in other small counties around the state over the rest of the night -- and whether Dems overperform their November stats in their strongholds, Zach Knocking me over with your data speed. And while Sen. David Perdue wasn’t really considered among the top tier of vulnerable senators to start the cycle, Georgia slowly but surely rose on the list of competitive states through the cycle, with both GOP and Dem groups investing pretty heavily by the end, even well before Joe Biden’s campaign started to play here in a big way. Georgia is on track to be majority-minority by 2030. <, How Georgia’s Senate race pits the Old South against the New South, https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/17/georgia-senate-race-447466, ‘It’s nonstop’: Georgia Senate battles rage far from Atlanta. Americans Want the Truth! Not making a prediction here, but top Democratic insiders in Georgia and Washington are looking at the outstanding votes in DeKalb County and feeling very bullish about the prospects of a 50-50 Senate. (WOWT) - The Douglas County Department of Corrections announced an inmate’s death Sunday. That's more than the secretary of state's office was estimating, So with Perdue's lead down to just 384, and with more votes from Democratic counties, Ossoff should pull ahead soon and Warnock's lead will grow. 2020 Douglas County General Election unofficial results; November 3, 2020. There are 181 school districts in the state. Constitutional Amendment Two. He's on the cusp of making history, We're spinning our wheels here for a couple minutes, folks, because Raphael Warnock is set to speak in about 10 minutes. We might have about half the expected vote in Columbus (the city and county are co-terminus, I believe), but we have zero Election Day precincts. I almost included it in the preview we published this morning. Charlie, I think Cobb & Gwinett counties are a tale of demographics. DOUGLAS COUNTY — Douglas County votes are in and as of last Wednesday morning 32,839 ballots had been received for the 2020 Primary Election. David Perdue is still very narrowly ahead of Jon Ossoff in the regular election. Fulton County Director of Elections, Richard Barron, Is Removed From Office – Will They Now Ensure a Valid Audit on Their 2020 Results? Returning to Valdosta's Lowndes County...97% of estimated votes are now reported. And with 78% of the expected vote in, Republican Kelly Loeffler leads Democrat Raphael Warnock, 50.3% to 49.7%. Button group with nested dropdown. According to the Georgia Secretary of State's office, 156 of 159 counties have reported complete returns. And as Maya reported in her excellent story about Georgia and the New South, the immigrant population jumped 84 percent between 2010 and 2018>. It was one of his loudest applause lines.Â. It hasn't been easy for them but I have seen no (legitimate) systemic complaints about the administration of the runoff. Every indication is that the two parties are performing fairly close to what they did in November, which is to be expected. The City of Douglasville and Douglas County will hold a collaborative job fair on March 19, 2021 from 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM at the Douglasville Conference Center, 6700 Church Street in Douglasville. Runoff. 9030 Highway 5, Douglasville, GA 30134. Elena & Maya, I was reading today that the biggest influx of outsiders to the Atlanta are New Yorkers. Speaking of Jim Crow relics, Marc, let's remember why we're here in the first place: Georgia's runoff system. Douglas County For complete Douglas County elections result go here. Warnock is running slightly behind Ossoff. April 6, 2021 Pre-Election Day Public Test Election Day Postings Election Day Post-Election Day Training. oh god, me writing "young internet creators" makes me seem old, I read a really interesting story in a competing outlet about how young internet creators were headed to Atlanta too, Teresa. And 98.11% of precincts have reported. … Live 2021 Georgia election results and maps by county. I would be the person on that show who only guesses $1, hoping everyone else screwed up. results, Raphael Warnock is outpacing Jon Ossoff in terms of margin. Why are results not posted more quickly? BOCC Land Use Meeting / Public Hearing. The Douglasville Elections Department, also known as the Board of Registrars, manages poll locations, certifies election results, and promotes fair and legal elections. Cherokee County Board of Elections and Voter Registration. I'll buy lunch (in a few years, when we return to the office) for anyone who can guess Al Gore's percentage in Gwinnett County. You edited the story, Charlie. To Elena's point, I'm wondering how many Warnock-Perdue or Ossoff-Loeffler voters we'll find. POLITICO's coverage of the Senate race between David Perdue and Jon Ossoff. 3: 37.5%: Here's the latest from the Georgia Secretary of State's office. It'll be a real test of the GOP's commitment to small d democracy ... and I wonder how many senators are watching tonight's results trickle in. (Har har.) March Pop Up Arts Shop. Chill out people. By. A number of Democratic and voting rights groups even opened field offices in places like Valdosta in Lowndes County, to show that they feel the entire state is in play. So that's probably the ceiling. The decisions we make have to pass one simple test: will it make Douglas County a better place? He never said that. But it's the big one, We have the Atlanta metro area with ballots out yet, couple small counties, and the aforementioned Chatham, home of Savannah, Also according to data on the secretary of state's website: 147 of 159 counties are fully reported, If it comes down to Savannah, we ain't getting calls tonight:Â. And there are 159 of them. But for Democrats to be outperforming Biden in the heart of their territory is a good sign for them. Here's where things stand at the moment, but keep in mind the three counties that have not reported complete returns (Fulton, DeKalb, Hancock) are all strongly Democratic. Special Election Count – Feb 2021. Teresa Smart point. There are two Senate seats on the ballot today and Democrats must win both to gain a Senate majority. You can click on the office or candidate to see more detailed information. 1998-2013 County 1% Sales Tax Election Results. See election results, maps, county-by-county vote counts and more for Georgia’s races on Jan. 5, 2021. What I'm watching tonight: The clock! County Clerk; Elections; April 6, 2021; April 6, 2021 Pre-Election Day Public Test Election Day Postings Election Day Post-Election Day Training. (And James Arkin memorably wrote about Ossoff's evolution as a candidate, if you're interested!)Â. At this point, I can write the conspiracy theories that will populate social media tomorrow. Douglas County Fire & Emergency Medical Services (EMS) and Douglas County Emergency Management Agency (EMA) Departments celebrated a special donation of personal protective equipment (PPE) from Medline Industries on March 3, 2021. I'll bet he's treated like a rock star at the next election administrators convention. Some votes from DeKalb County, outside Atlanta, just landed, moving Raphael Warnock back into the lead in the special election. Douglas County Board of Commission Chairman Romona Jackson Jones receives Atlanta Regional Commission (ARC) board officer appointment. Worth noting that the statement from Trump is dated "January 5, 2020". I don't think anyone will be surprised by this tweet from the president. Happy week 53 of 2020. That is the mail ballots that were received today before close of polls. Thank you for spending your evening with us. If Trump is not on the ballot, can Republicans not bank on those surges in the rural areas? They did both those things, which is why we're looking at such close races, I'll bite on that one, Charlie -- just purely numerically, it was A LOT of people. Agreed Charlie. “The New York Times report regarding comments Vice President Pence supposedly made to me today is fake news. Are these Price is Right rules Charlie? 1 Cindy Wright – 1,788 Sasha Sleiman – 986 Eastmont School District No. March Pop Up Arts Shop. Looks like about 22,000 votes have been reported so far. Phone 770-651-2000. CNN's (plus ABC, CBS and NBC) come from Edison Research, a firm that conducts exit polls and counts the vote for those networks. Not ideal! And Orange County has moved in the same direction as Cobb, for many of the same reasons. There's 159 counties in Georgia, Hey Zach: Do you think it's odd that they have no clue what Election Day turnout is, Many smaller, Republican-oriented counties are already accounted for. In the race for State Senator the Douglas County results are: Robert Ross: 731; Karla Eslinger 1601; Van Kelly 1540; State-wide, Eslinger went on to win over Robert Ross by 142 votes. ElenaÂ, I have a feeling these races won't be the blowout that the Heisman was this year. Covid-19 Update with Dr. Janet Memark - March 12, 2021. Yeah. For the record, DeKalb delivered big for Dems in November -- Biden won by a landslide, 83-16. That definitely helps, too! Despite the messaging mishaps over the past few weeks, Trump is still their biggest asset.Â, To James’s point about Black voter turnout, if African-American ballots are 30% of the share of vote, it’s an indicator of a likely Democratic winÂ, The first returns are in, everybody panic!!! But of course, this is all dependent on how tight it is. Certification of the 2019 Municipal General/Special Election. But in light of that, I'll do Gore losing Gwinnett by 22 percent, my POLITICO softball jersey number, Closest without going over! If it flips, it could be an indicator of how Trump was a drag on Perdue. And the music industry is big there, too. I regret to inform everyone that some of the right wing traffickers of misinformation on Twitter are laying the groundwork for more complaints of widespread election fraud, which will largely be baseless if they happen to resemble their claims from November. Douglas County Election Results . Click to read all of what is going on in Douglas County! 825 Memorial Drive P. O. So that's a good sign for Ossoff and Warnock, though obviously we're still talking about very close margins. 3, 2021 the Douglas Wastewater Treatment Plant experienced a Total Suspended Solids (TSS) exceedance of 46 mg/L. At the moment, with 48% of estimated votes reporting, both Warnock and Ossoff are at 74% in Muscogee County. It’s too bad Georgia doesn’t have a system that makes County election supervisors do what North Carolina and Florida do: process early and absentee ballots ahead of time and tabulate them instantly as soon as polls close. Prosecutors in Fulton County, Georgia, are investigating Donald Trump's attempts to overturn the state's 2020 presidential election results, according to a letter seen by Reuters on Wednesday, in the second criminal probe faced by the former president. The Douglasville Elections Department, also known as the Board of Registrars, manages poll locations, certifies election results, and promotes fair and legal elections. President Trump, who lost Georgia, had a 10-point lead at midnight on election night. Election Summary: Precinct Breakdown. I'm still fascinated that Georgia has a county named Jeff Davis, in honor of the only president of the Confederacy. “The November 3rd election was corrupt in contested states, and in particular it was not in accordance with the Constitution in that they made large scale changes to election rules and regulations as dictated by local judges and politicians, not by state legislators. I know that sounds high, Marc. It evaporated as all the votes were finally counted. It's hard to draw any conclusions without that information — folks I talked to before today said they were watching that region above all others tonight. As a point of reference, Biden crushed Trump there by 18 points in November. Jumping off that Marc Steven -- I was looking up the numbers earlier today. It helps that he's an Atlanta native! Election Results. It’s hard to overstate the importance of the outcome of these races. 5 Meaghan Vibbert – 1,670 Lyle McCune – 1,147 Bridgeport mayor Esiquio (Zeke) Martinez – […] Ours come from The Associated Press. The ground games are impressive indeed, James. The smartest and dumbest thing said in politics is that it’s all about turnout. It’s been fascinating to see how Atlanta, and the rest of the state, has been transformed by massive demographic shifts. Complete General Election Summary And Report for November 6, 2018. She will face Democrat Tammy Harty on the November ballot. If not paid by June 1, 2021, business owners can expect to pay a 10% late fee penalty. The Republicans are up but barely so. Peach State voters will decide whether Republicans David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler return to Washington or if Democratic challengers Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock take their place. We're not expecting a call on the races anytime soon, so we're going to call it a night. He skipped a debate. Qualified Candidate Information. There are still a lot of metro Atlanta area votes to be counted. You’re slipping. Some light reading for anyone who has time to kill waiting for more returns. At two events I was at last week, he said in any other state he would have won already (which is not quite correct, a few others have runoffs) and said 52.5% of the electorate rejected Ossoff in November. The Wastewater Treatment Plant reported to the Georgia Environmental Protection Division on March 4, 2021 the TSS exceedance. Thanks for asking Zach! Intent to Tabulate Early. The polls are now closed and we’ll be here for the next few hours talking about the results in the two elections that will decide control of the Senate. It seems very close. The list goes on.... Another very early observation: With 28% reporting, Ossoff is running well ahead of his Nov. 3 pace in Gwinnett County, a populous Atlanta suburb. There's 159 counties in Georgia, each of which will be reporting three buckets of votes: In-person on Election Day, early in-person and mail ballots. But what's the rush? 2020 Primary Election Results. Zach I'm afraid I'm not familiar with those rules. Hello from Atlanta, the center of the universe tonight. 19,000 from DeKalb County, and about 7,000 from Coffee County. But seriously, I'm going to be keeping an eye on how vote tallying goes. So while we wait on DeKalb, we still have to wonder how much of the remaining pie it represents. A lot still depends on turnout variations here and there which is tougher to get into, and remember Perdue and Loeffler are overperforming in some places too. Douglas County Courthouse 1313 Belknap Street Superior, Wisconsin 54880 Phone: (715) 395-1341 Quick Links. That's quite a transformation. Thanks for reading! With 3.4m votes in, it stands to reason that almost 70% of the vote is in. At his rally in Dalton last night, President Trump was very transparently trying to make these runoffs a referendum on his push for Republicans to object to the certification of the election. 2021 Georgia Election Results. Georgia election admins battle Covid and conspiracies ahead of Senate runoffs, https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/05/gabriel-sterling-blames-trump-455279, GOP Georgia election official: Blame Trump if Perdue or Loeffler lose, Democrats go back where they started to expunge Trump era: Jon Ossoff, 84 percent between 2010 and 2018>. Warnock would be the seventh African-American ever elected to the United States senate. But there is helpful precedent for breaking it down tonight: We just had a closely divided election in Georgia two months ago. (That general order makes sense, the last ballots processed are often the mail ballots that arrive on Election Day. It is a lot of votes, Yeah, Charlie. Election results provided by the Associated Press. More than 3.75m ballots have been cast. He spent a lot of time in these runoffs outside Atlanta trying to improve his image/perception all around the state, Maya Stylistically, Ossoff seems more suited to metro Atlanta than Valdosta, Over a million votes in and reported, now ... so we're a quarter(ish) of the way there, During the November elections, Perdue escaped being defined. Candidate Info. Speaking of people spreading conspiracy theories ... just got a fundraising text from the president with a conspiracy theory in it! March 23, 2021. But you can live a lot larger there than in NYC. I mean 171,000. And there have been a lot of transplants from other parts of the country. That's the deadline for when ballots from certain military and overseas voters have to be received, as long as the deadline for when voters can fix -- or cure -- deficiencies on their ballot, And of course, if the races are within 0.5 percentage points, we could see a recount drag things even further, as we did in Georgia for the presidential race, I have heard some hopeful to see a call as early as Marc described. 2020 Qualifying Packet. "It is going to be a long night," Sterling said. Even started breaking it in... Sad. Voters probably won’t get their say in the matter until late 2020. Marc Perdue also didn't have to run in a vicious primary. (In Webster County, Ossoff ran better than Warnock. Here's a trivia question for my fellow chatters and political geeks. Here are a few key Democratic counties outside the Atlanta area to keep an eye on as the night goes on: Just ask Jon Ossoff's first opponent, Charlie! In February, I got a new glove after years of abusing my high school baseball glove. Sanitary Improvement District 515 - Levy Override (07/09/2019) ), if anyone wants to take a crack at it: And the numbers look better for Perdue. I wonder if the ATL suburbs will deliver the same Dem margins in a post-Trump era. Karen Handel beat Ossoff in that 2017 runoff (cc: Elena), lost a squeaker to now-Democratic Rep. Lucy McBath in 2018 and then this year ... not a particularly close rematch between still-Rep. McBath and Handel. I want to see how fast Charlie can type "Wyche Fowler" or "Paul Coverdell.". Charlie Looks like Gwinnett is only reporting mail votes right now, which we'd expect to be the most Democratic-leaning segment of the total vote. “It really depends on how many absentee ballots.". 7:11 PM: Very early results show Ossoff and Warnock leading Perdue and Loeffler in Burke County.
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