Georgia Election Results

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Please post Georgia Election Results as you get them

Reed concedes
By Jim Galloway | Tuesday, July 18, 2006, 10:02 PM

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Former Christian Coalition leader Ralph Reed conceded defeat about
9:50 p.m. in Georgia’s Republican primary for lieutenant governor.

“Tonight my candidacy for lieutenant governor comes to an end,” he said.

He promoied to work for the GOP ticket, including Sen. Casey Cagle
(R-Gainesville), his rival in the lieutenant governor’s race.

With 43 percent of precincts reporting, the
Georgia Secretary of State’s office
showed Cagle with 55.2 percent of the vote,
compared with 44.8 percent for Reed.

http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/shared-blogs/ajc/elections/entries/2006/07/18/reed_concedes.html

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1. Cathy Diebold Cox behind in Gov race

Election results as of 8:59 PM

Statewide races close in early returns
By Travers Johnson | Tuesday, July 18, 2006, 08:58 PM

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Many statewide races were as close as expected shortly after
polling places in Georgia closed and election results began
rolling in Tuesday night.

In the Democratic race for governor,
Mark Taylor crept ahead of Cathy Cox.
With 33 percent of the vote counted, he had just over
the 50 percent of the vote needed to avoid a runoff...

Other close races include:

• Jim Martin and Greg Hecht appeared headed for a runoff
in the Democratic race for lieutenant governor.

• Karen Handel and Bill Stephens seem to be destined to face
each other in a runoff in the Republican race for Secretary of State.

• Gail Buckner led a crowded field of candidates in the
Democratic race for Secretary of State.

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2. Cox's opponent "will add a verifiable paper ballot.."

Someone asked me who Cathy Cox's opponent, Gail Buckner is.

Protecting Georgia Citizens – Gail Buckner’s Priorities

• As your Secretary of State, Gail will execute elections with
common sense, justice and fairness to all.

° Gail will add a verifiable paper ballot to the
electronic voting machines based on research and professional advice.

° She will recruit more citizens to work the polls and provide
more training to all poll workers.

http://www.gailbuckner.com/gb_issues.html

[klook]

4. Buckner would be Cathy Cox's successor if she wins

Cox is the current SOS but is running for Gov., so Buckner isn't her opponent. Just for clarification.

Thanks for the info on Buckner, though. Sure hope we get a Sec. of State who'll push for independently auditable election results.

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

5. Taylor leading Cathy Diebold Cox at 10:14 PM Eastern

Meanwhile, in the Democratic primary for governor,
Lt. Gov. Mark Taylor held a 51 percent to 44 percent lead
over Georgia Secretary of State Cathy Cox.

The winner will take on Republican Gov. Sonny Perdue,
who held a landslide margin over one little-known opponent.

http://www.cqpolitics.com/2006/07/ga_mckinney_trailing_early_ree.html

Sorry about earlier mixup r/e Cox.

Lets keep our fingers cross that Cox is out

[BeFree]

6. Geez, even I knew that

Cox is running for Governor. Geez.

If Cox loses, then what happened is Diebold promised her a job. Diebold might throw this election to her opponent just to throw us off the trail and Diebold can say: "See, everything is fine. Our water girl lost. That proves the damn machines aren't so bad."

Watch for it.

[Cookie wookie]

10. Looks like Cox lost

89% of precincts reporting:
Cox 180,258 44.1%
Taylor 210,765 51.5%

Cox's days as Diebold's golden girl are over. She paid a high high price and look where it got her.

Sad, but the thought of not having to do battle with her over voting machines any more, there are no words.

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

12. Thank you to the powers above!

Its definitely Karma.

Cox's career killed by her own stinking voting machines.

GOOD!

:toast:

I am kicking my own thread, that is in very poor taste.

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

14. Cathy Diebold Cox in the Bizarro World of "Glitches"

Imagine a bizarro world, where Cathy Diebold Cox loses
on her own voting machines:

In this bizarro world,

Cathy Diebold Cox would say -
"The machines switched the votes, they were rigged."

and then continuing in that bizarro world, where everything is
reversed, her opponent would say:

"There were some glitches, but the outcome of the election was
not affected. All problems were minor and due to poll worker error."

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3. McKinney Gaining on Johnson - 47-45% with 35% of precincts reporting

With 60 of 167 precincts reporting (a of 10:48 p.m. EDT), here are the results for the Georgia 4th Congressional District (The Fightin' 4th!):

Hank Johnson - 8,894 votes (47%)
Cynthia McKinney - 8,723 votes (45%)

[klook]

8. McKinney Takes the Lead!

47-45% Cynthia as of 11:11 PM EDT (52% of precincts reporting)

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17. when she wins, I hope that she does this

I hope she cold cocks those cops at the rotunda.

Just kidding.

But wouldn't it be great if our lawmakers would
get as rowdy as they do in Britain,(hot debates)
or in Japan (fist fights)?

We have a bunch of wimps in our congress.

[msongs]

7. doncede with less than 1/2 precincts counted??? nt

[Cookie wookie]

9. Leading SOS candidate Gail Buckner (there will be a runoff)

went from 5% in the poll 12 days ago to getting 24.5% of the votes today (87% of precincts reporting), a shift of 19.5%.


Here's the poll:
"Jul 6, 2006 – Georgia Political Digest.com RESULTS
GPD FLASH POLL - Democratic Primary - Secretary of State
According to our readers, it will be a tough Democratic Primary for
Secretary of State. Two candidates appear to be in a hard fought battle
for first and second place. The result are: Shyam Reddy 328 votes
(44%), Scott Holcomb 326 votes (43%), Gail Buckner 35 votes (5%), Darryl
Hicks 29 votes (4%), Angela Moore 26 votes (3%), and Walter Ray 7 votes
(1%). Our readers cast a total of 751 votes, and we thank them for
taking part in the poll."

The election results are upside down from the poll, check it out:
http://www.sos.state.ga.us/elections/election_results/2006_0718/00602.htm

[Janice325]

11. I checked out your link, Cookie wookie, and found the last part

disturbing:
"Georgia Election Results
Unofficial And Incomplete Results of the Tuesday, July 18, 2006 General Primary Election

The results displayed are UNOFFICIAL AND INCOMPLETE until certified by both county election superintendents and the Secretary of State, a process that will not be completed until the week of July 24. These unofficial returns, transmitted by counties to the Secretary of State's Data Center on election night, are under continuous review for formatting accuracy and are subject to correction at any time."

I'm hoping Cathy Cox will still be in second place then, behind Taylor, and the numbers don't somehow flip flop.
Call me cynical.

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

15. more on unofficial results

in our country we often think the results on election night are
the final ones, but some of us have learned.

There is a canvassing period following election night where provisional
ballots etc are processed, along with any contested ballots.

After these are decided, they are added into the rest of the count,
and then it is official.

Agh.

That is usually about 1 week later, or less.

[Cookie wookie]

16. yeah, like waking up to find your

candidate that won suddenly lost overnight.

Well, I saw Cox concede with my own eyes. What a sight. The last time I saw her in person, was when she launched her campaign from the capitol. She was going to have a big tour of the state, lots of brouhaha. A couple of other activists and I went down and stood silently with signs over our heads, we had lots of anti-e-voting stuff. Then when she stepped down from making her speech, and the cameras were doing their closeups and tv reporters asking her questions, I got one of my friends to stand right behind her with those signs so that there was no way they could use the footage without seeing our signs. She wasn't a happy camper.

She shouldn't have lied and mislead and fronted for Diebold. I was there too many times when it happened. She was slick but I think we just wore her down. And of course, Diebold doesn't need her any more.

[Janice325]

19. I want to thank you, Cookie wookie, as well as others

whose names I don't recall right now, for making me aware of Cathy Cox and her hypocrisy.
I live in Georgia, voted against Cox (and FOR McKinney!).
I'm hoping that all those Dems who crossed over to the Dark Side to vote against little Ralphie come home to vote for Cynthia in the runoff.

[Cookie wookie]

21. Good for you.

Glad to hear that what we posted was convincing. She was a sly fox, I'll give her that. Smart, extremely smart. Very hard to catch her in anything, but really dishonest.

Another toast, a sacred one. Turn up the cup for Athan Gibbs. He died in the line of duty. One week after demonstrating his voter verified paper ballot DRE (TrueVote), and the Friday before he was supposed to demonstrate it again for interested members of the state House, so they could see how vvpb worked, since Cox said there was no technology that was certified that could be used with DREs for vvpb (and she knew better), Athan was run off the road by a big 18 wheeler and killed.

We love you Athan and hope you're celebrating up there tonight with Martin and Bobby.

:toast:

[OnTheOtherHand]

23. well, careful about that "poll"

Not claiming to know anything about GA politics, I ask sincerely: who are the readers of GeorgiaPoliticalDigest.com?

Really, I would be startled if a voluntary Internet survey did match the election results. That's all I can say about it -- I have no idea who any of these people are, except of course that I heard about Holcomb and Moore in the last few days. I don't know if anyone ran a random-sample poll on the Democratic SoS primary.

[cal04]

13. Cathy Cox Concedes Defeat

Secretary of State Cathy Cox conceded defeat at midnight in the hard-fought Democratic primary for governor.

Cox acknowledged defeat to Lt. Gov. Mark Taylor, setting up a November contest between Taylor and Gov. Sonny Perdue, who easily defeated a challenger in the Republican primary.

“This has been a tough battle, but make no mistake: Tonight the battle has ended,” she said. “The slings and the arrows have ceased.”

She said she would support Taylor.

http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/shared-blogs/ajc/elections/entries/2006/07/19/cathy_cox_conce.html

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

18. I see Cathy Cox's future......

[Cookie wookie]

20. hahahahahahahahahahahaha

hahahahhahahahahhaha

And congratulations to Defenders of Democracy who worked their fingers to the bone to make this moment possible.

:toast::toast::toast::toast::toast::toast::toast::toast::toast::toast::toast::toast:

[Janice325]

22. Crap!!!

I almost forgot about Karla Drenner!!!

State Representative, District 86
Democrat
92% of precincts reporting Votes Percentage

Karla Drenner 1,678 62.4%
Cynthia Tucker 1,009 37.6%

Go Karla!!!
I only remembered Karla when I read about this in Alabama:
"Patricia Todd led community activist Gaynell Hendricks by a scant 59 votes in the House District 54 runoff race in Birmingham Tuesday as Todd attempted to become the first openly gay or lesbian legislator in Alabama."

Oh My God!! Maybe the tide is turning. Cathy Cox concedes, Ralph Reed concedes, Karla Drenner (openly lesbian) is winning, and hopefully Patricia Todd win! (Jeez, I was aquainted with Pat many years ago in another life when I was married and belonged to the National Organization for Women).
Kewl!