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2020 United States presidential election in Georgia

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The 2020 United States presidential election in Georgia is scheduled to take place on Tuesday, November 3, 2020, as part of the 2020 United States elections in which all 50 states plus the District of Columbia will participate. Georgia voters will choose electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote. The state of Georgia has 16 electoral votes in the Electoral College.

Although Georgia has not voted for a Democrat since 1992, Trump's margin was more narrow in the 2016 election due to the state's fast-growing and diverse population, as seen in the "flipping blue" of several of Atlanta's inner suburban counties for the first time since the presidency of Georgian-born Jimmy Carter. Georgia is seen as a key battleground state in both the presidential and Senatorial elections, with a very tight race in the former.

By the time that the primary elections were held in the state on June 9, 2020, incumbent President Donald Trump was already the Republican Party's presumptive nominee, being the only viable declared major candidate left. On the Democratic Party's side, Vice President Joe Biden became the presumptive nominee after Senator Bernie Sanders, his last competitor, withdrew on April 8, 2020.

General election

Predictions

Polling

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Voter registration for the 2020 general elections ended on October 5 in Georgia, with a final total of 7,587,625 registered voters, an increase of 2,144,579 new voters since the 2016 election and 648,116 new voters since the 2018 gubernatorial election. Absentee mail ballots were first sent out on September 15. Unlike the June 9 combined primary, Georgia Secretary of State, Brad Raffensperger, declined to mail out absentee ballot request forms for the November 3 election, and instead established a website for registered voters to apply for an absentee ballot; in addition, third-party non-profit organizations such as the Voter Participation Center sent out over 2.2 million absentee request forms to registered voters by mail, including to voters who did not have computers nor Internet access. 1,731,117 absentee ballots were requested by mail or online by voters by the deadline of October 23. The Secretary of State's office allowed counties to install multiple drop boxes for absentee voters to bypass the postal system, on the condition that the drop boxes be installed on county government property and surveilled with 24-hour cameras.

Early in-person voting began on October 12. Complaints regarding hours-long early-voting lines soon arose across the state, especially in Metro Atlanta counties; state officials attributed the long durations of lines to voter enthusiasm and lack of preparation by county boards of elections.

Raffensperger recorded 126,876 votes having been cast early or absentee across the state on October 12, a record turnout for the first day of early voting in a Georgia general election. The record turnout continued throughout the first week, with 1,555,622 having been cast by October 19. By October 21, 2,124,571 votes had been cast, over 50% of total votes cast in the 2016 election.

Results

Primary elections

The presidential preference primary was originally scheduled for March 24, 2020. On March 14, it was moved to May 19 due to concerns over the COVID-19 pandemic. On April 9, the preference primary was again rescheduled to June 9, being combined with the regular, usually-separate primary for other federal and state primaries as well as local elections in some counties, the first time in Georgia history that all primaries were combined on the same date. Secretary of State Raffensperger approved sending out absentee ballot application forms to 6.9 million active voters for the combined primary, of which 1.1 million absentee ballots were requested.

Republican primary

Incumbent President Donald Trump ran unopposed in the Republican primary, and thus received all of Georgia's 76 delegates to the 2020 Republican National Convention.

Democratic primary

See also

• Voter suppression in the United States 2019–2020: Georgia
• 2020 United States presidential election
• 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries
• 2020 Republican Party presidential primaries
• 2020 United States elections

Notes

1. Calculated by taking the difference of 100% and all other candidates combined.
2. ^ Key:
   A – all adults
   RV – registered voters
   LV – likely voters
   V – unclear
3. "Other third party" with 2%
4. With voters who lean towards a given candidate
5. "Someone else" with 5%
6. Hawkins (G) and "Someone else" with 1%; would not vote with 0%
7. Includes "Refused"
8. With voters who lean towards a given candidate
9. "Someone else" with 3%; would not vote with 0%
10. Includes "Refused"
11. "Someone else" with 1%
12. "Some other candidate" with 2%
13. Hawkins (G) with 1%
14. "Someone else" with 3%
15. "Someone else" with 2%
16. "Someone else" with 1%
17. Hawkins (G) with 1%; "Another Third Party/Write-in" with 0%
18. "Someone else" with 2%
19. "No one" with 0%; "Other candidate" with no voters
20. With a likely voter turnout model featuring higher turnout than in the 2016 presidential election
21. With a likely voter turnout model featuring lower turnout than in the 2016 presidential election
22. "Someone else" and would not vote with 0%
23. Including "Refused"
24. Standard VI response
25. Hawkins (G) with 0%
26. If only Biden and Trump were candidates
27. Hawkins (G) with 1%; "Another Third Party/Write-in" with 0%
28. Overlapping sample with the previous Morning Consult poll, but more information available regarding sample size
29. Would not vote with 1%
30. With voters who lean towards a given candidate
31. Hawkins (G) and would not vote with 0%
32. "Refused" with 2%
33. "Some other candidate" with 4%
34. "Someone else/third party" with 3%; would not vote with 0%
35. "Third party candidate" with 4%; would not vote with 2%
36. Includes "refused"
37. With a likely voter turnout model featuring higher turnout than in the 2016 presidential election
38. With a likely voter turnout model featuring lower turnout than in the 2016 presidential election
39. "Another Party candidate"
40. "Other" with 3%; "would not vote" with 1%
41. "Different candidate" with 8%; would not vote with 2%
42. "Someone else" with 3%
43. Listed as "other/undecided"
44. "Undecided" with 5%; "Did not answer" with 2%
45. Poll conducted for the Speaker of Georgia's House Republican caucus
46. Poll sponsored by Doug Collins' campaign
47. Wouldn't vote with 1%; don't know/refused with 3%
48. Wouldn't vote with 2%; don't know/refused with 5%
49. Wouldn't vote with 3%; don't know/refused with 4%
50. Wouldn't vote with 2%; don't know/refused with 3%
51. Wouldn't vote with 2%; don't know/refused with 3%
52. "Vote against Trump" with 46.9%
53. Would not vote with 1.8%
54. Listed as "don't know/refused"

1. ^ The American Action Forum is a 501 organisation which usually supports Republican candidates
2. Poll sponsored by Ossoff's campaign
3. The Human Rights Campaign endorsed Biden prior to this poll's sampling period
4. Poll sponsored by Democrat Raphael Warnock's campaign for U.S. Senate
5. Matt Lieberman is a Democratic candidate in Georgia's 2020 special Senate election
6. Fair Fight Action is the non-profit arm of Fair Fight, founded by Stacy Abrams who endorsed Biden prior to this poll's sampling period
7. This poll’s sponsor, DFER, primarily supports Democratic candidates
8. This poll's sponsor, AFSCME, had endorsed Biden prior to the sampling period
9. This poll's sponsor is the American Principles Project, a 501(c)(4) organization that supports the Republican Party.
10. Poll sponsored by Ossoff's campaign
11. This poll is sponsored by End Citizens United, a PAC which has endorsed Democratic candidates who are against the landmark Citizens United court ruling
12. This poll was sponsored by a Republican-supporting organisation

References

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Further reading

• Summary: State Laws on Presidential Electors (PDF), Washington DC: National Association of Secretaries of State, August 2020, Georgia
• "Democrats eye Arizona, Georgia and Texas as potentially winnable", Theguardian.com, UK, September 5, 2020
• David Wasserman (October 6, 2020), "The 10 Bellwether Counties That Show How Trump Is in Serious Trouble", Nytimes.com. (Describes bellwether Peach County, Georgia)

External links

• "Georgia 2020 Purge List", SaveMyVote2020.org, Los Angeles, CA: Palast Investigative Fund, Check if you have been purged from the Georgia voter rolls
• "League of Women Voters of Georgia". (State affiliate of the U.S. League of Women Voters)
• Elections at the Georgia Secretary of State official website
• Government Documents Round Table of the American Library Association, "Georgia", Voting & Elections Toolkits
• "Georgia: Election Tools, Deadlines, Dates, Rules, and Links", Vote.org, Oakland, CA

• 2020 United States presidential election by state
• United States presidential elections in Georgia (U.S. state)
• 2020 Georgia (U.S. state) elections