{"id":240883,"date":"2026-01-06T15:35:46","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T20:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=240883"},"modified":"2026-01-06T15:35:50","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T20:35:50","slug":"when-do-georgia-voters-choose-marjorie-taylor-greenes-replacement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=240883","title":{"rendered":"When Do Georgia Voters Choose Marjorie Taylor Greene&#8217;s Replacement?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger announced a special election set for March 10, to fill the U.S. House seat for District 14 after Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene resigned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What&#8217;s Happening:\u00a0<\/strong>The special election will take place in Catoosa, Chattooga, Dade, Floyd, Murray, Paulding, Polk, Walker, Whitfield, and portions of Cobb counties. If no candidate wins a majority, a runoff will be held April 7.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Process:\u00a0<\/strong>Candidates must qualify in person at the Georgia Secretary of State&#8217;s Elections Division office at 2 MLK Jr. Dr., Floyd West Tower Suite 802, in Atlanta. Qualifying runs from January 12 at 9 a.m. through January 14 at 1 p.m. The qualifying fee is $5,220.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Key Dates:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>January 12-14: Candidate qualifying period<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>February 9: Last day to register to vote<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>February 16: Early voting begins<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>March 10: Special election day<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>April 7: Runoff election, if needed<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What Voters Need to Know:\u00a0<\/strong>People who are not registered must register by February 9 to vote in the special election. Advance in-person voting starts February 16.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger announced a special election set for March 10, to fill the U.S. House seat for District 14 after Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene resigned. What&#8217;s Happening:\u00a0The special election will take place in Catoosa, Chattooga, Dade, Floyd, Murray, Paulding, Polk, Walker, Whitfield, and portions of Cobb counties. If no candidate wins [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":948,"featured_media":22799,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15957],"tags":[8622,19851,8514,8685],"class_list":["post-240883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-your-vote","tag-congress","tag-district-14","tag-election","tag-marjorie-taylor-greene","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=240883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=240883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=240883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=240883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}