On July 17, Georgia held a special run-off congressional election to fill the vacancy in the 10th district. Because Georgia uses the “top-two” system for special elections, and because two Republicans placed first and second last month in the first round, the July 17 run-off was between two Republicans, Jim Whitehead and Paul Broun.
With 99% of the vote counted, Broun has 23,314 votes and Whitehead has 23,120. There will be a recount. The turnout was very low; in November 2006 the vote had been Charlie Norwood (Republican) 117,721; Terry Holley (Democratic) 57,032.
Although both Whitehead and Broun are Republicans, Broun had campaigned to get Democratic and independent votes, saying that since virtually all leaders of the Republican Party supported Whitehead, that Whitehead would be a rubber stamp. Also Broun’s father had been a Democratic State Senator.
There are still some 1,700 absentee ballots to be counted from Mr. Whiteheads home county….time will tell!!
actually it was just reported that those 1,700 absentee ballots were counted last night.
Whitehead’s campaign had assumed those had not been counted yet. But Columbia County said the only votes they have left to count are votes from military oversees and provisional ballots (fewer then a 100 of these so not enough to change outcome of race)
please let me know when the final count is in and won