Race to finish late congressman's term goes to a runoff

By Jill Nolin | Editor

By Alander Rocha

Marcye Scott, the daughter of the late Congressman David Scott, fell short of winning a special election to finish her father’s term in office and will face former Gwinnett County School Board chair Everton Blair in a runoff next month. 

The Associated Press made the call at around 8:45 p.m. Tuesday. As of late Tuesday night, Scott led with 46% of the vote, according to unofficial results from the Georgia Secretary of State’s Office. Blair came in second with about 37% of the vote. 

By Maya Homan

A committee tasked with helping select Georgia’s next statewide election system is scheduled to hold its first meeting next week as lawmakers, election officials and other appointed members begin to envision a QR code-free method of voting. 

The use of ballot QR codes have been a contentious issue throughout the last several years in Georgia politics.

By Grant Blankenship, GPB News

By mid-July, data center rumors in the Southwest Georgia city of Albany demanded attention. That was why city officials scheduled four public sessions on data centers: to clear the air.

“If you have a question, you can come to the mic and we will try to answer the questions that you have,” Albany City Manager Terrell Jacobs told the crowd gathered in the auditorium of Dougherty County Comprehensive High School for the first of the meetings.

Jacobs had already told residents that despite the fact that Albany’s city-owned electrical utility has more power to sell than it has customers, the city sees no data center on the horizon.

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