Georgia held primaries on May 22, but the state still doesn’t know the identity of the Republican nominee for State House, 28th district. The results were certified shortly after the primary, and they showed that incumbent Republican Dan Gasaway was defeated by 67 votes by Chris Erwin. But then Gasaway learned that some Republican voters in his district had received a ballot that did not include the candidates running in his district. Instead their ballots listed candidates running in the 10th district.
He sued in June, but only on September 12 is a state court hearing the case. See this story. There is no Democratic nominee in this district. The primary may need to be re-done.
CNN has a story about the mess.
How Many Dark Age States —
unable to detect voter addresses and precincts on maps ????
The CNN story has little to do with the situation in Georgia. CNN could have repeated the first few paragraphs then transitioned to article about a contest for people making animal noises: “Quack, Quack”, said one animal impersonator. A cacophony of moos, meows, howls, and barks was heard.
There was a congressional district that the Democrats drew following the 1990 Census, that had such intricate boundaries that voters were assigned to the wrong district. But this was not discovered until litigation over the primary runoff had begun. A few dozen voters had crossed over between the primary and the primary runoff, voting in the Republican primary and the Democratic runoff. In Texas, there is no secret ballot for unlawfully cast ballots. The judge was interviewing “voters”. One gentleman, said something like, “I’ve had a good life, a good job, a good family, and now I have a good retirement. But you might as well put the handcuffs on me now, as I am not going to tell you how I voted.”
While the court case was going on, a academic researcher from Taiwan discovered that the wrong boundaries were being used, with no election data from some areas within the district boundaries, and other areas outside the district that had voted.
The judge called for a new election, and the winner of the re-do is still in Congress 26 years later.