ATLANTA (AP) — A recount in the Atlanta mayoral election runoff hasn’t altered results significantly.
Election officials in two counties that include parts of Atlanta on Thursday recounted the ballots cast on Dec. 5.
The result: Keisha Lance Bottoms still narrowly leads Mary Norwood, who asked for the recount after Bottoms was declared the winner by a margin of less than 1 percent.
Norwood said she’s still concerned about irregularities and will talk with her lawyers to decide her next step.
She picked up five votes and Bottoms lost six in Fulton County in the recount. DeKalb results remained the same.
The totals after the recount show Bottoms with 46,661 votes, or 50.44 percent, and Norwood with 45,840 votes, or 49.56 percent.
I think this is the second time Norwood has lost the Mayoral race with a recount needed. I know she’s listed as an independent, but she’s basically a moderate republican. How does she keep getting this close?
Anyway, congrats to Bottoms. Please don’t focus all your energies on ‘bucking up’ the police.
Voter turnout of 19% in a majority black city doesn’t help…
Dems should take notice. Norwood only got as close as she did because she ran as an “independent”, even though her positions are decidedly Republican. Voters are against parties whenever possible, except for pure partisans.
Sorry guys…I live in Atlanta and Norwood’s policies are NOT “decidedly republican”. She was pro gay rights 20 years ago when it wasnt quite so fashionable as it is now. She has also gone after unscrupulous developers. She is pro-transit, and was one of few to stand up for the rights of displaced residents in gentrifying neighborhoods. These are things she has DONE, not counting anything she says she would do. She was a little more pro law enforcement than I would have liked, but she doesnt have the corruption stink that Bottoms carries.
I am HARDLY anything but a progressive, but I supported Norwood. City Hall corruption is a big problem here. People talking about things they dont know is another
While I think that in her heart Norwood is somewhat like an old Rockefeller Republican, I generally have to agree with scottnatlanta above. I lived in Midtown and West Buckhead neighborhoods of Atlanta for 24 years and still live near enough to the city to have the local TV stations as my local stations. I would add that ardent DEMS like former mayor Shirley Franklin, LGTB activist and former City Council President Cathy Woolard, current City Council President Ceasar Mitchell and other Dem and African American leaders endorsed Norwood in the run-off. While it is not clear that current Mayor Reed is directly connected to corruption at city hall, his administration has had a lot of corruption, about as bad as former Mayor Bill Campbell’s administration had, and Campbell himself ended up in prison. While Bottoms has not yet been directly connected to any of the corruption, she is allied with Reed. I will say that Bottoms presents better in debates, Q&A, etc., than Norwood does and that she probably has a better grasp of legal issues, etc.