On March 22, the Georgia House Special Committee on Election Integrity passed SB 202. It provides that in primary and general elections for partisan office, overseas absentee ballots would use ranked choice voting. This makes it possible to hold earlier run-offs. If no one gets 50% and a runoff is needed, the bill provides that a runoff would be held four weeks after the general election, instead of nine weeks.

If this bill had been in effect in 2020, the two U.S. Senate runoffs would have been held on December 1, 2020, not January 5, 2021.

Other states in which overseas voters use ranked choice voting are Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and South Carolina.

The bill also transforms Georgia special elections, so that parties would have nominees. Currently, Georgia special general elections lack party nominees. This is why the 2020 special election for U.S. Senate in Georgia had 20 candidates on the November ballot.

The House Committee amended other provisions of the bill, so that now it expands early voting hours. The Senate version shrink early voting hours.