Holy shit
Absentee ballots plunged from a total of 1.28 million in November 2020 to a little over 240,000 in last week’s General Election in Georgia.
Given that mail-in ballots in Georgia favor Democrats two-to-one, it is reasonable to conclude this breathtaking 81% drop of over one million mail-in votes likely cost Sen. Raphael Warnock an outright victory. Georgia law requires a candidate to win by 50% of the vote plus one.
Though incumbent Warnock led his Republican challenger Herschel Walker by 35,202 votes, that still places him 23,000 votes short of the 50% threshold. As a result, Warnock is now forced into a runoff with Republican Herschel Walker.
Dropboxes were all but banned in urban, i.e. Black, counties. Specifically, counties are not allowed to provide more than one ballot dropbox per 100,000 population, reducing the number of dropboxes in the Atlanta area from 107 to 25. (At the same time, under SB 202 dropbox voting was extended to small, rural, Republican counties.)
