State's New Law forced Runoff in Senate Race - by Greg Palast
"Absentee ballots plunged from a total of 1.28 million in November 2020 to a little over 240,000 in last week’s General Election in Georgia."
"Given that mail-in ballots in Georgia favor Democrats two-to-one, it is reasonable to conclude this breathtaking 81% drop of over one million mail-in votes likely cost Sen. Raphael Warnock an outright victory. Georgia law requires a candidate to win by 50% of the vote plus one."
"Though incumbent Warnock led his Republican challenger Herschel Walker by 35,202 votes, that still places him 23,000 votes short of the 50% threshold. As a result, Warnock is now forced into a runoff with Republican Herschel Walker.
"Despite its massive size, the one-million vote decline was fogged over by press releases by Georgia's Republican Secretary of State who announced, “Georgia's record breaking early turnout concluded with 2,288,889 voters casting their ballot during Early Voting.”
"How could the media have missed the one-million vote elephant that disappeared from the room? Without reading the fine print — early voting reports commonly include absentee ballots received — this supposed jump in early voting was quoted without qualification."
Full Article: [mailchi.mp]
Something’s amiss here. Are they saying that there were just fewer mail in votes in the aggregate, or are they saying that there were 1 million ballots that were actually not counted? The number of mail in ballots that were rejected (due to things like missing signatures, or other limiting criteria) should also have been tallied.