Breitbart News reports that more than 700,000 November voters did not participate in Georgia’s runoff election; the largest drop was in right-leaning districts.
More than 700,000 Georgia residents who voted in the November election did not participate in the Senate runoff, according to an analysis by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
The analysis shows that the largest declines in turnout from the Nov. 3 presidential election to the Jan. 5 runoff were in northwest Georgia and south Georgia, both of which are Republican-leaning areas.
For example, counties in northwest Georgia, including Walker, Whitfield, and Catoosa counties, voted 70-80% for former President Donald Trump, but parts of the region saw a 19-24% drop in voters from the presidential election to the runoff.
The analysis also found that the majority of the 752,000 voters who stayed Home in the runoff election were white. While this is related to the fact that white voters made up the majority of all voters, the percentage of white voters declined the most. White voters who did not participate in the runoff decreased by 11 percent, while black voters decreased by 8 percent, an important statistic as exit polls in the state show that white voters tend to vote Republican in 2020, while black voters mostly vote Democratic.
Multiple polls have shown many Republicans distrust the presidential election results, and the findings coincide with those results.
Trump tried to boost voter turnout in the runoff and held two rallies before the race to campaign for the Republican nominee – both of which ended up with some of the most significant declines in turnout in northwest Georgia’s Dalton and south-central Georgia’s Valdosta.
While Trump stressed the importance of voting Republican at the rally, he also reiterated his claim that rampant election fraud cost him the presidential election. His claim was met with chants of “stop stealing” from his thousands of supporters who attended the rally.
In addition, two prominent attorneys, Lyn Wood and Sidney Powell, held a press conference in downtown Atlanta in December and also insisted that voter fraud was widespread in the presidential election, but they deviated from Trump’s message by proposing a voter boycott of the Georgia runoff when the alleged fraud still posed a threat to the election process.
Wood told the crowd at a news conference not to give their votes to the Republican candidates because they haven’t won them yet.” You don’t give it to them. For God’s sake, why would you go back and vote in another rigged election? Fix it. You have to fix it before we can do it again.” Wood declared.
A Democratic group, Really American PAC, went so far as to use the message of voter fraud to install billboards in rural pro-Trump areas that read, “Georgia Republicans didn’t fight for Trump, we won’t fight for them,” alongside Republican incumbents, Senators David Perdue ( David Perdue) and Kelly Loeffler (D-N.Y.) were pictured.
Perdue and Loeffler ended up narrowly losing to their Democratic challengers by about 2 percent or less of the 4.5 million votes cast, to incumbent Senators Jon Ossoff (D-N.Y.) and Raphael Warnock (D-N.Y.), a typically red state upset that many blamed on Republican voters who felt disenfranchised by suspicions of Many blame this typically red state’s unhappiness on Republican voters feeling disenfranchised by suspicions of voter fraud.
One Georgia resident told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, “What good does it do to vote? Their ballots were changed,” adding, “I don’t know if I’ll ever vote again.” The story drew many similar comments on social media.
One said, “Maybe telling them that their votes don’t matter is a bad strategy.”
John Burke, Perdue’s former campaign spokesman, also wrote, “The biggest lesson the Georgia Senate runoff taught everyone: Don’t let anyone tell you your vote doesn’t count.”
Austin Chambers, chairman of the Republican State Leadership Committee (RSLC), also commented, “The stolen information from the Trump election is turning voters off… … The truth is in the data.”
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