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To: theoilpainter

7 States including Alabama require primary run offs if not get 50% but

1] Uniquely, Georgia requires a run-off election if no candidates wins a majority of the vote in a general election.


83 posted on 11/14/2017 5:17:45 PM PST by SMGFan (Sarah Michelle Gellar is on twitter @SarahMGellar)
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To: SMGFan

Has Louisiana gone main stream? Until fairly recently what you described for Georgia held true for Louisiana.


85 posted on 11/14/2017 5:22:54 PM PST by Hieronymus (It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged. --G. K. Chesterton)
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To: SMGFan

So, in Ala, the one who gets the most votes, even if not a majority, wins at the general election?


102 posted on 11/14/2017 8:19:23 PM PST by theoilpainter
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