aTypical Joe: a gay New Yorker living in the rural South
Thursday, November 09, 2006
The election drags on in Middle Georgia
MACON, Ga. (AP) - Two days after the election, former Republican Congressmen Mac Collins and Max Burns have refused to concede close races to two Democratic representatives.
Jim Marshall barely beat Collins, while John Barrow claimed victory yesterday in the state’s two tight U.S. House races where some ballots remain uncounted.
With 99 percent of the precincts reporting, Marshall led by only 16-hundred and 82 votes in middle Georgia’s Eighth District. Collins holds out hope that provisional or absentee ballots might erase his deficit.
In east Georgia’s 12th District, Barrow says he has enough of a margin to withstand the tally of outstanding ballots and a possible recount. In unofficial returns, with 99 percent of precincts reporting, Barrow had 50-point-three percent of the vote, leading Burns by just 884 votes.
Georgia Republicans don’t concede. They gerrymandered this election; they expect to win.
