Georgia's Special Election Has Been Longer Than Some Countries' National Elections
Georgia's sixth-district special congressional election will be held 130 days after it was first announced. That's far longer than full national elections take in places like the U.K. and Mexico.
by Danielle Kurtzleben
Jun 20, 2017
3 minutes
The long-awaited special election in Georgia is finally happening.
On Tuesday, people will head to the polls to cast their votes for either Democrat Jon Ossoff or Republican Karen Handel in the sixth congressional district special election in the Atlanta suburbs to replace Republican Tom Price. Price left his seat to become President Trump's health and human services secretary.
That "long-awaited," though, has been pretty long. As Nate Silver pointed out recently, between
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