Georgia Still Counting, But Senate Runoff Is Already Underway

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Source: WDEF

November 7, 2008 - 6:48pm. News

... Earlier Friday, Chambliss was 16-thousand votes shy of winning the race outright. He has already begun running new T-V ads for a runoff. And John McCain has agreed to campaign for him ... The Martin campaign says they have contacted the Obama campaign ...

Read more: http://wdef.com/news/georgia_still_counting_but_senate_runoff_is_already_underway/11/2008

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Handel throws Fulton under the bus
November 7, 2008 at 5:43 pm by Scott Henry in News

Has Fulton County become the GOP’s election scapegoat or is some ulterior motive at work in Secretary of State Karen Handel’s call for a state investigations and threats of possible criminal prosecution?

As the AJC has doggedly been reporting, Handel has expressed outrage that Fulton took three days to count its absentee ballots, long after all other counties had turned in their results. Under state Elections Board rules, counties are supposed to keep ballot-counters on the job until they’re finished – or unless the Secretary of State’s office give them permission to break for the night.

Fulton officials called Handel’s office early Wednesday morning to see if the counters go home to get some sleep. She said no. They went home anyway.

I’m told that Fulton’s own election board approved the break because the ballot-counters – many of whom are retirees who’d spent a long day working working at the polls – were complaining of exhaustion ...

http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/freshloaf/2008/11/07/handel-throws-fulton-under-the-bus/

[napi21]

1. We already sent in our paas for absentee ballots for the runoff.

If you can't be at the polling location on Dec. 2nd, or (think you can't), you can apply for an absentee ballot here in Ga. I've been posting every for the last 3 days that all Dem voters here in Ga. should do that if they can't vote in that runoff election! This is a very important election people! We need to send Saxby back home!!!!! PLEASE either comit to vote in that runoff election or at least apply for an absentee ballot and do it by mail!!!!

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2. Runoff Certain in Georgia Senate Race (NYT)

November 7, 2008, 5:46 pm
By Sarah Wheaton

There are 433 votes left to be counted in the Georgia Senate race. But no matter which way they go, the Fulton County Elections Board said, there would not be enough votes to give either Senator Saxby Chambliss or his Democratic challenger, Jim Martin, 50 percent of the total vote. That means a runoff will be held on Dec. 2 ...

... Mr. Martin .. is already running advertisements with his pledge to “work with Barack Obama to get our economy moving again.”

In his own spot, Mr. Chambliss says his opponent “wants to help Barack Obama raise taxes on nearly every small business in Georgia” ...

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/07/run-off-certain-in-georgia-senate-race/

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3. Martin for Senate website

http://www.martinforsenate.com/

[MarjorieG]

4. Any public mention/awareness of Chambliss theft in the first place. Programmer admitted...

Residual of affection for Cleland?