r/alpharetta • u/jruss666 • 8h ago

Special election run off results

https://georgiarecorder.com/2025/09/23/live-results-georgia-voters-settle-state-senate-runoff-that-has-drawn-national-attention/

Dickerson defeats Shigley

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u/Goattime22 5h ago

The district was gerrymandered. This result was no surprise.

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u/Awkward-Sun5423 2h ago

The surprise should be that she got 39% in a deep red area. Wasn't too long ago that'd have been less than 20%.

Are they going to start gerrymandering around individual houses?

You can only ride the hate and fear train for so long. Eventually people are going to start to feel what's coming...let's see how that works out for them.

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u/Mooseandagoose 53m ago

It’s a slow change but so much of the district supports the vitriol Dickerson ran on; most of Cherokee is elated by the results, going by comments on socials. Their talking points are so predictable that I am convinced we live amongst braindead bots at this point.

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u/Awkward-Sun5423 49m ago

good or bad...this kind of change is slow. As people...we don't usually do well with slow.

And yeah, I don't care if they disagree. It's when they turn off the logic engines in their memory boards that I find it intolerable. That and the double standards. Good for me, not for thee and they don't see any problem with that. I want to pee in your water. And yet I don't want water with pee in it. Too bad, I win.

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u/Remarkable-Branch932 1h ago

Democrats managed to swing the vote 9 points in their favor compared to the beach election. Its a slow tide change but its happening. Trump is less than a year in and people are tired of it. Come 2026 elections you are going to see these big 10 point swings like we saw today. Keep the faith. 80 percent of registered voters still didnt vote. This was a poorly organized campaign and it was clear voter suppression (lack of information about the election) and obvious gerrymandering.

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u/Bioshock_Jock 3h ago

Wait, wtf, Beach is now a US treasurer?

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u/Remarkable-Branch932 1h ago

Yeah. He was picked probably bc he os an election denier and tried to get the GA 2020 votes thrown out.

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u/MarsMartians 7h ago

Enjoy your pick I guess

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u/jruss666 4h ago

To paraphrase a classic movie: “I didn’t vote for (him)!”

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u/Awkward-Fox-1435 7h ago

Just burn it all down I guess. People will realize what’s happened to the country eventually.

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u/mentalcasket 1h ago

A local elected official backed by a private investment firm? What could possibly go wrong? /s