Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger is calling for the state legislature to end general election runoff contests.
Responding to questions from NBC News for more information about Raffensperger's opposition to runoffs, a spokesperson for his office said that election workers are “burned out” at the end of a long election season and that runoff elections are disliked by candidates, voters, campaigns and county workers alike.
The spokesperson mentioned three potential options that Georgia legislators might consider when they convene next month if they decide to engage in discussions to end the runoff process. Raffensperger himself mentioned these three options during a press conference last week following the runoff, and again in an interviewOne option would be to create a ranked-choice ballot and instant-runoff system in which voters would rank their candidate preferences on the general election ballot.
Another option would be to lower the threshold that candidates have to meet to avoid a runoff from an outright majority to a plurality, the spokesperson said, while another option could be to eliminate third-party candidate ballot access altogether.Georgia’s General Assembly meets in January. Under Georgia law, a runoff occurs if no candidate wins more than 50% of the vote in an election. The top two vote-getters then advance to another election.
Georgia is one of only two states — the other is Louisiana — that continue to hold general election runoffs (
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