GA-6 Special election discussion thread

[Barnes]

I'm hoping Ossoff gets over 50% for many reasons, but also because having to wait another two months for election day is agonizing.

American elections are too long, dammit.

two months is a bizarre time period, imo.

Why can't a runoff only be mere days/week after the jungle?

Georgia (I don't know about other states) is required to allow plenty of time for overseas military ballots to be received.

The 2008 Senate runoff was only a month later though. Was it because it was Christmas soon, then swearing in soon after?

A federal judicial ruling in 2013 forced the state to extend the time period between a regular election and a runoff. The state legislature dutifully amended the law to have the two month period but declined to change state election to match it. So, for example in 2014, if the two races had gone to runoffs, the Governor's election would have been the first week of December while the Senate race would have been the first week of January 2015. Incidentally, that's a few days after the new Senator would have taken office.

[Confused Democrat]

NYT expects results to start coming in at 7:30

[Matty]

NYT's expects results to start coming in at 7:30

Wish it was earlier.

[The Other Castro]

Fulton County will not be releasing anything, no early vote or whatever, until 8.

[Matty]

Fulton County will not be releasing anything, no early vote or whatever, until 8.

Boo this man! boo this!

[Beet]

Go Ossoff!

[heatcharger]

Metro ATL always takes forever to report. It's probably worse than NOVA in that aspect.

[Classic Conservative]

Cobb won't report till 7:45

[ajc0918]

Cobb County results beginning at 7:45pm.

[The Other Castro]

So, DeKalb is probably going to come in first, skewing the results to be even more pro-Ossoff initially.

[Confused Democrat]

Final GA-06 predictions before the results start coming in?

I say Ossoff fails to reach 50 and gets between 43-47.

[Jeppe]

Still predicting that Ossoff hits the 50% benchmark.

[exopolitician]

Still predicting that Ossoff hits the 50% benchmark.

Hope so. I'm thinking it's going to be close.

[Classic Conservative]

Still predicting that Ossoff hits the 50% benchmark.

[Interlocutor is just not there yet]

Final prediction...

Ossoff: 46.9%
Handel: 18%
Gray: 16%

[KingSweden]

Ossoff at 46, Gray takes the second slot

[Progressive]

Still predicting that Ossoff hits the 50% benchmark.

I'm heartened by the fact that both Handel and Gray have some potentially fatal flaws in a runoff, that being said, I also think the Ossoff campaign ran a very effective campaign for the preliminary round and I'm thinking 50.0%+

[MAINEiac4434]

Does anyone have links to the results?

[Adam the Gr8]

Does anyone have links to the results?

I found this.
http://www.nytimes.com/elections/results/georgia-house-special-election-district-6

[Xing]

I'm still going to be cautious. I'll say Ossoff gets about 45-46%.

[Bakersfield Uber Alles]

Does anyone have links to the results?

http://results.enr.clarityelections.com/GA/67317/Web02-state/#/

No results yet though.

[MAINEiac4434]

DDHQ is normally pretty quick at updating.

https://decisiondeskhq.com/results/georgia-6th-congressional-district-ga06-special-election-primary/

Results won't be long now.

[The Other Castro]

Reminder before votes start coming in. Ossoff rough 50% benchmarks:

Cobb - 43.38%
Fulton - 49.46%
DeKalb - 60.03%

Benchmarks for EV are probably around 10% higher in each.

[Nyvin]

I'm thinking Ossoff comes just short of a majority, something like 48-49%. 

Handel comes in second, something in the high teens.

[Roronoa D. Law]

Does anyone have links to the results?

http://results.enr.clarityelections.com/GA/67317/Web02-state/#/

No results yet though.

Atlanta area usually last to report in GA. That's why it took so long in 2016.