Race for vacant Ga. Senate seat begins
The campaign for a Georgia Senate district covering parts of DeKalb, Rockdale and Newton counties starts Monday, when candidates will begin filing papers to run for office.
They'll compete in a Nov. 3 election to replace former Sen. Ronald Ramsey Sr., D-Lithonia, whom Gov. Nathan Deal appointed in July to become a judge in DeKalb State Court's Traffic Division. Ramsey had served in the Senate since 2007, and there's more than a year left in his two-year term.
Candidate qualifying will last from Monday through Wednesday at the Elections Division of the Secretary of State's Office, and candidates must pay a $400 fee to run.
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Mark Niesse is an enterprise reporter and covers elections and Georgia government for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and is considered an expert on elections and voting. Before joining the AJC, he worked for The Associated Press in Atlanta, Honolulu and Montgomery, Alabama. He also reported for The Daily Report and The Santiago Times in Chile.
