Congratulations to Jimmy Cooper are in order for an excellent write-in showing. He showed stronger results than our entire 1998 slate, or if memory serves, any other of our candidates except Nan Garrett and our Presidential slates.<\/p>\n
http:\/\/sos.ga.gov\/index.php\/elections\/2018_votes_cast_for_certified_write-in_candidates<\/a><\/p>\n ‘Legislated off the ballot’, as Party Chairman Bruce Dixon often puts it, the Georgia Green Party was left to run the two candidates of its 2018 slate as write-ins. John Fortuin turned his attention elsewhere, to media work and research (see his report on cronyism in Georgia election policy<\/a>, mentioned in the previous issue). But Jimmy Cooper was undeterred by the ballot access barriers and proceeded with his Fall campaign. His work was visible in the results.<\/p>\n To summarize, the Secretary certified results including a total of 564 votes for Green Party nominee Jimmy Cooper for Georgia’s 8th Congressional District. Those numbers include: 244 votes from Bibb County<\/a>, 108 votes from Lowndes County, 134 votes from Houston County<\/a> and 78 votes from the other nineteen counties combined.<\/p>\n Only one write-in candidate showed a stronger finish in this year’s results, Emily Leslie delivered 600 write-ins in her bid for House District #106.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Congratulations to Jimmy Cooper are in order for an excellent write-in showing. He showed stronger results than our entire 1998 slate, or if memory serves, any other of our candidates except Nan Garrett and our Presidential slates. http:\/\/sos.ga.gov\/index.php\/elections\/2018_votes_cast_for_certified_write-in_candidates ‘Legislated off the ballot’, as Party Chairman Bruce Dixon often puts it, the Georgia Green Party was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.wp.georgiagreenparty.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.wp.georgiagreenparty.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.wp.georgiagreenparty.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.wp.georgiagreenparty.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.wp.georgiagreenparty.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.wp.georgiagreenparty.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.wp.georgiagreenparty.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.wp.georgiagreenparty.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.wp.georgiagreenparty.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}