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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Number-crunchers in courthouses across Georgia can expect some easy lifting tonight, if early voting is any guide.
About 2 percent of Georgia’s active, registered voters cast early ballots in the run-off, whether in person or by mail, according to Secretary of State Karen Handel’s office.
That’s for both parties.
More than four times as many voters cast early ballots in run-off elections in ’06. Three times as many cast early ballots in ’04.
Matt Carrothers, spokesman for Handel, sent these early voting run-off stats for some perspective:
— 2006 run-off for lieutenant governor, Democratic: 5.3 percent;
— 2006 run-off for secretary of state, Democratic: 5 percent;
— 2006 run-off for secretary of state, Republican: 4 percent;
— 2006 run-off for agriculture, Republican: 4 percent;
— 2004 U.S. Senate run-off, Democratic: 6 percent.
DeKalb County may be the exception to the dismal numbers. Election officials there are seeing an unexpectedly large turnout — as far as run-offs go — with voters coming out because of several contested run-offs, all in the Democratic column.
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