Runoff looming in race to replace Rep Doug Collins

Gerald Couch has won a third term as Sheriff in Hall County. Republican voters in Hall County were among those in a couple dozen northeast Georgia counties who have apparently set up a runoff in the race to replace Doug Collins in the US House. Collins, who is running for US Senate in a special election in November, will likely be replaced by either Rabun County state Rep Matt Gurtler or Athens gun shop owner Andrew Clyde. They were the top two vote-getters in a field of nine Republican candidates that also included former Athens Congressman Paul Broun. The runoff will be held on August 11.

It looks like Democrat Jon Ossoff will face former Columbus Mayor Teresa Tomlinson in an August runoff, with the winner advancing to face Republican US Senator David Perdue in November. It was an election day that was hampered by problems with voting machines, sporadically statewide but most notably in Fulton and DeKalb counties