Voter guide: Who and what is on the ballot?

By Jill Nolin | Editor

By Recorder staff

This year’s midterm election is shaping up to be an especially consequential one for Georgia. Not only will Georgia voters help decide which party controls Congress by deciding whether to send U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff back to Washington, but they will also choose a new governor, secretary of state, attorney general and lieutenant governor and settle other key down-ballot races. 

For our general election guide, we’re featuring Georgia’s statewide races, explaining the three constitutional amendments on the ballot and highlighting a handful of congressional contests around the state where voters are choosing new representatives. 

By Jay Bookman

The late Harry Reid saw a lot of people come and go during his 30 years in the U.S. Senate. In an oral history with Columbia University, he recalled the first time he saw a newcomer from Illinois, a man named Barack Obama, deliver a speech on the Senate floor.

“I walked over to him. He’s sitting at his desk. I look down at him and I said, ‘Senator, that was really a good speech. That was good.’ He looked at me so seriously, and so intently, without a hint of braggadocio, and said, ‘I have a gift.’”

Jon Ossoff also has a gift, and like Obama, he knows it.

How could he not?

By Maya Homan

Election Day is still weeks away, but Georgia voters are already starting to cast their ballots.

That’s because state law mandates that counties offer three weeks of early voting before every major election. Each of Georgia’s 159 counties offers at least one early voting location, and unlike with Election Day voting, where residents are assigned a specific precinct, early voters can choose to cast their ballot at any location in their county.

We’ve mapped all of the early voting locations across the state.

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