Georgia Runoff Has Ranked-Choice Voting, but Only for a Few

With one election behind them, Georgia voters must immediately prepare for the next—the U.S. Senate runoff between incumbent Democrat Raphael Warnock and Republican challenger Herschel Walker, neither of whom reached the 50 percent vote threshold the state requires.
The runoff will take place on Dec. 6.
That’s much sooner than the 2020 election’s runoff—which occurred nine weeks later on Jan. 5, 2021.
It’s a fairly inconvenient time, with early voting starting just after Thanksgiving and an election when most people are preparing for the holidays.
A few voters won’t have to make another trip to the polls. Those who cast absentee ballots from abroad—3,855 of them—were offered ranked-choice voting in case of a runoff, Deputy Secretary of State Gabriel Sterling told The Epoch Times….}

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