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The 2022 Georgia Secretary of State election was held on November 8, 2022, to elect the Secretary of State of Georgia.Incumbent Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger won re-election to a second term.
In March 2021, the Republican-controlled state legislature passed a bill, which was signed into law by Kemp, that removed the position of state election board chair from the Georgia Secretary of State's duties. The law handed control of the state election board chair to the state legislature. [45]
No candidate in the open election on November 3 received the 50% required by Georgia law to avoid a runoff, a type of election colloquially known as a "jungle primary" [1] —Warnock received just 32.9% of the vote—and so a runoff election between Warnock and Loeffler was held on January 5, 2021, which Warnock won with 51% of the vote.
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) reassured the state’s voters that the upcoming election is secure and that voters’ ballots will be counted. Raffensperger said that no matter ...
The secretary of state’s office also is working with sister agencies in other states and the Georgia Department of Driver Services to identify voters who may have moved out of state, he said.
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger on Wednesday called for the state legislature to end general election runoff contests.
The secretary of state of the U.S. state of Georgia is an elected official with a wide variety of responsibilities, including supervising elections and maintaining public records. The office has had a four-year term since 1946. [1] Before 1880, the secretary of state was elected by the Georgia Assembly, not in a popular election. [1]
A bill that would allow ballots cast in an election to be uploaded to the Georgia Secretary of State’s website for the public to access has passed through the Senate Ethics committee with a 4-2 ...