Tuesday, April 2, 2019
Lunch at 11:45 am, event begins at 12:15 pm
AU Constitution Hall, East Campus
Contested elections decided by narrow margins bring forth the fault lines of election administration and politics. Last November, the Georgia Governor’s race was decided by approximately 50,000 votes out of 3.9 million votes cast. A five-year voter registration effort collided with the Georgia election administration political bureaucracy. There are lawsuits and congressional investigations underway to determine if all the citizens of Georgia were treated fairly and if all their votes counted. The campaigns of both Stacey Abrams and Brian Kemp turned a Governor’s race into the equivalent of a presidential election. SPA Distinguished Practitioner in Residence, Bill Sweeney will walk us through the details of registering, voting and counting in Georgia and ask you to decide if the results reflect the outcome.