On Tuesday night I kept tabs on who was leading the polls for governor in Georgia. I literally had a google chrome tab open for hours that gave live poll results. In the begging it seemed as if all hope was lost for Abrams as Kemp was winning by a landslide. As the votes continued to be counted Stacey Abrams was catching up and only trailing behind by a few thousand votes. It eventually got late into the night and I decided I would go to sleep and view the results in the morning. I was disappointed when I woke up the next day to see that Stacey Abrams did not win.
While scrolling through Instagram, I started to notice people saying the race was not over. At the time I did not know that there can be recounts and runoffs. Apparently thousands of votes to this day still have not been counted so there is no official winner. There are enough uncounted votes that can change the results of the election. With all the voting difficulties that have come from this midterm election in Georgia there should be a runoff election. If there is a runoff election, poll locations should be checked in advance to make sure the polls work properly and that there are enough polls for everyone who is registered to vote at that location.
It's crazy to see everyone's different opinions on if there was actually voter suppression in Georgia or not. I feel like I've seen 1000 tweets with people arguing about the subject. I think it is very inspiring for Abrams to get a recount if she believes something is wrong instead of just giving up, regardless if it ends up true or not.
ReplyDeleteI blogged about this as well. It's crazy that there's still no winner, but if voter suppression is happening, there definitely needs to be a recount/runoff. Although I was rooting for Kemp, I'll be upset if he was suppressing votes. That's just wrong and unfair.
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