Georgia Primary Election Results, 2026

NBC ^ | 5/20/2026

[Lazamataz]

Republican Gov. Brian Kemp is term-limited, opening up the governorship and creating crowded primaries on both sides. President Donald Trump has endorsed Lt. Gov. Burt Jones, but he and wealthy businessman Rick Jackson advanced to a primary runoff on the GOP side. On the Democratic side,...

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[Lazamataz]

My most primary desire was to see that utter scumbag, Brad Raffensberger, put out to pasture.

[Jonty30]

With him gone, we may now know what happened in 2020.

[CFW]

“My most primary desire was to see that utter scumbag, Brad Raffensberger, put out to pasture.”

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I think that was a major goal for most of us.

As to the governor’s race, I’m looking at the total votes for GOP and Dems. Dems received approx a million votes total. The GOP less than 900,000. There is going to have to be a major get-out-the-vote effort by the GOP come November.

Also, during every election either Fulton, Cobb, or Dekalb counties (and sometimes all three) have major technical issues that end up with a judge ordering precincts to stay open late.

I think that is a feature not a bug. They have one job and can’t be prepared for it come election day. Does the state BOE needs to take over the elections in those counties?

[BubbaJunebug]

We had a tech issue in Cobb county voted 3 hours late

[Blueflag]

Exactly, a distant15% finish. Go away, Brad, go away.

[Blueflag]

And Fulton County STILL shows only partial reporting on the SOS site.

[CFW]

Andrew Kolvet
@AndrewKolvet

“Mike Collins was outspent 15:1, no endorsement from Trump, but has TPAction’s enthusiastic endorsement and won big tonight. He’s the America First candidate in Georgia and the man who can defeat Ossoff, the Dem’s most vulnerable Senate seat. If Collins wins, we hold the Senate.”

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I didn’t realize Collins was outspent by so much. He is winning over Derek Dooley by almost 100,000 votes. Conservative voters are going to need to turn out for the runoff next month so GOPe RINO Dooley is not installed. Also, Trump needs to endorse him asap.

[CFW]

From the NYT this morning. LOL!

“The grass roots underneath Donald Trump are unlike anything I’ve seen in my 40 years of politics,” said Michael Caputo, a Trump-allied Republican strategist who worked on Mr. Trump’s 2016 campaign. “Coming up against him today, it’s like, ‘Abandon all hope, all ye who enter here.’”

[Recompennation]

Still cooking u a STEAL.
Bunker levels.

[maddog55]

So Jones or Jackson?

[CFW]

IMHO. Definitely Jones. Rick Jackson will lean more towards the RINOs and Kemp wing of the GA GOP party. Jones has always been a Trump supporter and never backed down from his position that there were shenanigans in the 2020 election.

[Wallace T.]

Caputo is correct. No President since LBJ in his first three years in office has dominated his party as Trump has. The fall of Raffspenberger and Massie yesterday, the defeat of Cassidy last week, the defeat of five out of seven Indiana GOP state senators who opposed redistricting, and other victories by Trump endorsed candidates in the Republican primaries are evidence. The sabotage against Trump by the moderate wing of the GOP in his first term awakened him to the need to clean up in this term. There are a lot of RINOs in Congress and the state houses, but, like Lindsey Graham ,they have decided to toe the line and feign support.

[Lazamataz]

Jones, I hope.

[CFW]

Meanwhile, most of the media keeps producing articles telling us how Trump’s influence over the party is waning and his endorsement of a candidate means little or nothing. Or worse, could be detrimental to a candidate.

[CFW]

Another election in Georgia was the House District 14 race in north Georgia. Clay Fuller had won the special election for the Marjorie Taylor Green seat a couple of months ago.

Fuller won last night’s race easily taking over 80% of the vote. Trading Greene for Fuller was definitely an upgrade.

[FreedomPoster]

Looks like we didn’t end up with a Dem state Supreme Court justice, so that’s nice.

[Kudsman]

That is one heck of an effective fractured base. When a movement keeps smoking establishment figures and the media choices, you can no longer call it “extreme” and maintain any sense of reality. Hakeem will try though. The FR will also be grinding teeth and telling us how it is really the Democratics and Iranians that are winning.

[Blueflag]

I work as an election official in Georgia; that’s stated just to set the stage for what follows.
Yesterday Fulton County (metro ATL) reported widespread “poll pad issues” resulting in a judge extending voting hours by three hours.
Being a “big county” is not a technical justification for recurrent failure in a standardized system.
Georgia has 159 counties. The electronic voting system is uniform across Georgia. It works very well and is truly highly-secure when operated properly. In effecdt, we all use the same system.
Only one county had confirmed court‑ordered extended hours: Fulton County. No other Georgia county reported poll‑pad failures that met the legal threshold for a Superior Court judge to extend polling hours.
Documented Years Fulton County Had Severe Poll Pad / Check In Failures
2020
• Multiple precincts experienced poll pad check in failures early in the day.
• Some pads were loaded with incorrect voter list files. (If they conduct legit L&A, this should be impossible.)
• Several precincts reverted to paper backup lists. Slow, but doable. Poll managers are trained to do this.
• Result: multi hour delays, long lines, and state level scrutiny.
2022
• Fulton reported authentication / certificate failures on poll pads. (Again, with legit L&A, how is this possible?)
2024 Some pads could not authenticate to the county server.
• Fulton had county level pollbook server stalls during early voting and on Election Day. (Does Fulton county understand and perform load testing?)
• Pads intermittently failed to sync or load voter data. (FYI, this condition occurs frequently and generally self-resolves in minutes)
• Result: significant delays at multiple precincts; state observers documented the failures.
2026 (Again, yesterday)
• Multiple precincts reported poll pad malfunctions severe enough that a Superior Court judge extended polling hours by up to three hours.
• Fulton has not yet released the technical incident report. Will they?
How about a legit root cause analysis?
Given uniform statewide architecture (same vendor stack, same legal framework, same procedures), persistent Fulton failures imply:
- **Local configuration defects** (server, network, certificates, database loads).
- **Local process defects** (escalation paths, incident response, testing, change control).
- **Local training defects** (poll manager and tech training, checklists, drills).
Those are controllable. Population size changes scale, not basic competence. (being GA’s most-populace county is not an excuse.)
### 2. What a legitimate root‑cause analysis must contain
A real RCA here would need, at minimum:
- **Precise failure type:** server outage, auth failure, bad database image, etc.
- **Timeline:** first symptom, first report, first escalation, first mitigation, final resolution.
- **Scope:** which precincts, which pads, which network segments.
- **Contributing factors:** configuration, staffing, training, testing gaps.
- **Corrective actions:** concrete changes with owners, deadlines, and verification steps.
Anything less is not a root‑cause analysis; it is a narrative.
### 3. What “eliminating recurring issues” actually requires
For Fulton specifically, I believe that means:
- **Technical:** hardened pollbook server configuration, pre‑election load testing, certificate/credential audits, rollback plans. (this is SUPPOSED to be done. WAS IT?)
- **Operational:** mandatory incident playbooks, strict escalation timelines, real drills, and post‑incident discipline when procedures are ignored.
- **Governance:** state‑level oversight with the ability to impose corrective action plans and, if necessary, replace non‑performing leadership.
NET:
> Other Georgia counties, using the same system, achieve reliable performance. Fulton does not. Therefore, arguably, the problem is Fulton’s management and execution, not the system itself.
On the available evidence, that is a logically consistent inference.
If Fulton publishes an incident report, we can test whether their “root cause” is specific, falsifiable, and tied to concrete corrective actions—or just another vague explanation.
Lastly, and this ‘blows my mind’, Fulton is STILL not complete reporting results to the Secretary ot State.
SOurce: https://results.sos.ga.gov/.../elections/GeneralPrimary51926

If I understood html, I’d format this better. Sorry.

[Blueflag]

HEre’s a working link.

https://results.sos.ga.gov/results/public/Georgia/elections/GeneralPrimary51926/reporting-statuses

Scroll down to Fulton.

Even dirt-poor Taliafero County got it done.

[Blueflag]

Pretty sure Dooley got an endorsement from Erick Erickson, who is highly-influential in many REP circles here. Erick was not so much pro-Dooley as anti-Collins. Not sure why.