- Collection:
- Georgia Law Review
- Title:
- Georgia’s Runoff Election System Has Run Its Course
- Creator:
- Goldberg, Graham P.
- Date of Original:
- 2020-01-01
- Subject:
- University of Georgia. School of Law
Law--Study and teaching
Georgia Law Review Association - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Clarke County, Athens, 33.96095, -83.37794
- Medium:
- notes (documents)
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Georgia requires candidates to earn a majority of
votes in their party’s primary to win elected office. The
majority-vote requirement—passed by the General
Assembly in 1964—is stained by racially-fraught
politics of the era, and even its alleged “good
government” goals are now antiquated. This Note
explores the history of Georgia’s majority-vote
requirement, examines two legal challenges to the law,
and analyzes its flaws and virtues. Finally, this Note
demonstrates that more appealing alternatives to the
majority-vote requirement exist and recommends that
Georgia replace its current runoff election system with
either ranked choice voting or a forty-percent
threshold-vote requirement.
Runoff Election System -- Election Law -- Law -- State and Local Government Law - External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://digitalcommons.law.uga.edu/glr/vol54/iss3/8
- Holding Institution:
- Alexander Campbell King Law Library
- Rights:
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