Before you send in your Ballot Request

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Before I send in my request for a mail-in Ballot for the May 19th primary, I wanted to make a quick breakdown of the ballots, according to which races actually have more than one candidate to look at. I pulled the Qualifying Candidates lists for the election from the Georgia Secretary of State's website.

Later on, I'll get into researching the candidates. But, if you have a particular race you know you want to be able to vote in, or if you want to maximize the number of actual options you can look at, this information may be useful.

Some of these races will definitely have Independent and/or third party candidates in November, but for May, here are your choices:


Races with Contests on Both Ballots


  • US Representative, District 13
  • State Representative, District 132 (Coweta)

Races with Contest on Republican Ballot Only (One or Zero Democrats)

  • State Representative, District 71 (Fayette and Coweta)
  • Coweta County Commissioner 4
  • Fayette County Commissioner 1
  • Fayette County Commissioner 2
  • Fayette County Commissioner 5
  • Fayette Board of Education 3
  • Fayette Board of Education 5

Races with Contest on Democrat Ballot Only (One or Zero Republicans)

  • US Senator, challenging Perdue
  • Public Service Commission, District 4
  • State Representative, District 63 (Fayette)

Races with one from each party running (No Contest in May)


  • US Representative, District 3
  • Public Service Commission, District 1
  • State Senator, District 16 (Fayette)
  • State Representative, District 72 (Fayette and Coweta)
  • State Representative, District 73 (Fayette and Coweta)
  • Fayette Sheriff
  • Fayette Board of Education 1

Races with One Republican Running


  • State Senator, District 28 (Coweta)
  • State Representative, District 70 (Coweta)
  • Coweta County Commissioner 1
  • Coweta Clerk of Superior Court
  • Coweta Coroner
  • Coweta Sheriff
  • Coweta Surveyor
  • Coweta Tax Commissioner
  • Coweta Solicitor General
  • Fayette Clerk of Superior Court
  • Fayette Coroner
  • Fayette Judge of Probate Court
  • Fayette Tax Commissioner
  • Fayette Solicitor General of State Court

Races with One Democrat Running


  • State Senator, District 34 (Fayette)
  • State Representative, District 64 (Fayette)
  • Coweta County Commissioner 5

Non-partisan Contest


  • Coweta Board of Education 2
  • Fayette Magistrate Judge - District 1
  • Fayette Magistrate Judge - District 2
  • Fayette Magistrate Judge - District 4

Non-partisan No-Contest


  • Coweta Judge of Probate Court
  • Coweta Board of Education 5
  • Coweta Judge of State Court
  • Coweta Chief Magistrate
  • Fayette Magistrate Judge - District 3


Comments

Unknown said…
Yes, this is useful. In a county predominantly Republican like Fayette, one has no voice in elections without a Democratic candidate unless one votes in the preceding Republican primary if it offers a choice. But a tricky thing was done when the Presidential Primary date was moved to the date for the Primary elections. It was possible before that to ask for a Democratic ballot, where there is a wide choice, to have a voice in choosing the Democratic candidate, and later to ask for a Republican ballot to have a voice in electing local officials. That can no longer be done, and if you're independent rather than partisan, you lose your chance to express your will as a voter.
April 6, 2020 at 7:59 AM
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