A Georgia state House member won’t face a new election after a judge ruled there wasn’t enough evidence to prove voters who received the wrong ballots swayed the race’s outcome.
Senior Judge Gary McCorvey on Monday declined to order a new election in state House District 128, where Democratic incumbent Mack Jackson beat Republican challenger Tracy Wheeler by 48 votes out of a total of 27,804 votes cast in November.
Wheeler sued to force a new election, arguing some people who lived outside the district improperly got ballots for House District 128, while a smaller number of voters living inside the district didn’t receive ballots. Those errors may have stemmed from errors in reassigning voters to the correct districts after redistricting.
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