GA-07: Woodall's lead narrows in closely-contested 7th District race
Democrat Carolyn Bourdeaux narrowed her deficit in Georgia’s 7th District race late Tuesday after the Gwinnett elections board counted a trove of provisional ballots, all but assuring the state’s only unresolved congressional contest will drag on for several more days.
Roughly 500 votes now separate the Georgia State University professor from incumbent Republican Rob Woodall. That puts the contest within recount territory should the margins hold after Gwinnett tallies several hundred previously-rejected absentee ballots later this week.
Georgia law allows candidates to request a recount if they trail the vote leader by less than 1 percentage point after election results are finalized, an avenue Bourdeaux’s team said she plans to pursue.
County election workers spent hours on Tuesday tabulating more than 1,200 provisional ballots that had been cast in the 7th District race. And there’s more work to be done in the days ahead: the county said it will reconsider about 300 absentee ballots that had previously been rejected due to missing birth year information to adhere to a recent order from a federal district judge.
Gwinnett’s election results will not be finalized until after those ballots are counted on Thursday evening. It is only after the state certifies those results that Woodall or Bourdeaux could request a recount.
Woodall had for days clung to a 901-vote lead in the contest to represent large swaths of Gwinnett and Forsyth counties in Congress, but Bourdeaux picked up 810 provisional votes on Tuesday and the Lawrenceville Republican 442.
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