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Erwin edges out Gasaway by 2 votes; Gasaway claims Habersham accepted 2 'illegal' ballots
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| Contributor | BrentinCO |
| Last Edited | BrentinCO Dec 08, 2018 01:02am |
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| News Date | Friday, December 7, 2018 07:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Georgia House District 28 will have a new state representative in 2019 if current election results stand.
After boards of elections in Banks, Stephens and Habersham counties met Friday and considered provisional ballots, Chris Erwin came out on top, defeating incumbent Rep. Dan Gasaway by two votes.
In Banks County, the two provisional ballots were split, with Erwin and Gasaway receiving one vote each.
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“We just protested the [Habersham] Election Board counting two illegal ballots and they went right ahead and counted them, so that was sort of a shocking outcome,” Gasaway said. “We knew who the ballots were, and we expected those to be discarded because they don’t live in the district, or are not registered in the district, but they went ahead and counted them anyway.”
Gasaway indicated he has faced an uphill battle from his challenger.
“We faced just tremendous dark money from the Gainesville crowd back in May, and that carried over to this election, so we had some tremendous opposition, but we’re going to keep battling,” Gasaway said. “I don’t believe the outcome tonight is accurate, and we can prove that. I hated we could not get some kind of resolution with this board when they clearly had illegal votes being cast in Habersham County tonight.”
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