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Per AJC [1], the following (notable) Republicans have submitted an application to be named for the seat:
I think there should be a subsection within Republicans for those who have applied online. There is a meaningful distinction between the potential candidates about whom the media has speculated and the candidates who have taken the step to submit an application. Thoughts? Jacoby531 ( talk) 22:42, 27 September 2019 (UTC)
What is the logic of including the current five candidates in the infobox?-- Mpen320 ( talk) 19:47, 24 June 2020 (UTC)
The current version of the article refers to "nominees" of the Libertarian and Green parties, but even though these individuals are their parties' only candidates they should not be called that. Georgia's special election laws place all candidates, with or without a party, on the same ballot without any notion of party nomination. Airbornemihir ( talk) 00:22, 28 August 2020 (UTC)
I have restored the original version of this article's formatting: [1]. Since there are not separate party primaries, the candidates should be in a single top-level section. This is consistent with 2020 Georgia's 5th congressional district special election, 2017 Georgia's 6th congressional district special election, 2010 Georgia's 9th congressional district special election, and 2007 Georgia's 10th congressional district special election, as well as articles for Washington and California (all elections) and Hawaii (special elections) which have all candidates running in a single initial election. There is no consensus to use the other format. Reywas92 Talk 05:30, 5 August 2020 (UTC)
Is there a better source on Matt Lieberman's endorsements? Almost all of them are supported by a single news article about a fundraising event held in CT last November, prior to any other candidates entering the race or even the appointment of Kelly Loeffler. The article doesn't once use the word "endorse" or even imply that the politicians had endorsed his candidacy. The article only substantiates that these individuals were present at a fundraising event, not that they endorsed the candidate at the event or even that they donated to attend (vs being comped, as one might expect might occur for e.g. the state party chairwoman at the time). This may have made sense early in the campaign, when the candidate had all party support (given he was the sole candidate), but at this point, that's fairly spurious evidence in the face of nearly the entire party endorsing Pastor Warnock. Jbbdude ( talk) 19:35, 21 September 2020 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: Moved; the practice for multi-stage elections that overlap a new year is X–X+1 Y election, as has been shown through examples on this page by Number 57. The examples by SecretName101 show this practice applies to US elections. Sceptre ( talk) 03:22, 16 November 2020 (UTC)
– These senate elections consist of one stage in 2020 and one stage in 2021 (runoff election), so it makes sense for the article title to reflect this (c.f. 1788–89 United States presidential election) Chessrat ( talk, contributions) 23:18, 5 November 2020 (UTC)
So embarrassing, to see the result of this RM. For goodness sake, it's a part of the 2020 United States Senate elections. This isn't a case of pre-1913, where the state legislature chose :( GoodDay ( talk) 14:50, 19 November 2020 (UTC)
How surprising the ruling of this RM? I accidently undid the closer's moves. GoodDay ( talk) 15:28, 19 November 2020 (UTC)
As I understand it, the winner's term will run until January 2023. This information should be placed in the lead section. -- 174.95.161.129 ( talk) 04:58, 12 November 2020 (UTC)
I'm not sure what this question was looking for, but here's the lede from the NYT that uses the title: Nov. 1, 2020 DALTON, Ga. — On a recent Sunday morning in northwest Georgia, the Rev. Raphael G. Warnock, the South’s most prominent Black preacher and a Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate, was giving his stump speech, mixing a little laid-back pulpit humor with a searing, Jeremiah-like condemnation of Republicans in the age of Trump. I'll remove the question as answered. Activist ( talk) 07:52, 16 November 2020 (UTC)
Can somebody fix the pre-runoff graph? BSMIsEditing ( talk) 13:24, 22 November 2020 (UTC)
Would it be possible to change the color scheme on the county-level results map in the infobox? I understand the reasoning behind having Loeffler and Collins as similar colors, but it makes it very difficult to tell who won which county, especially given how pale most of the counties are. Maybe instead of orange and pink, we could do red and gold, or something with a bit more contrast? It would make sense for Loeffler to be red, because she's the GOP runoff candidate. Jacoby531 ( talk) 20:38, 22 November 2020 (UTC)
As is, it's effectively unreadable in South Georgia. 128.62.152.16 ( talk) 22:35, 23 November 2020 (UTC)
Currently the article has a link to the generic article "two-round election", which obviously is of no help with respect to the specific form of the election to take place in January. I had thought that adding information to rectify this was self-evidently of value, but tag requests have been REPEATEDLY deleted without explanation. I personally do not have the knowledge to improve the article, hence tagging for clarification. I apologise for vandalising in my anger, but deletionists are just vandals that hide by posting links to style-guides. 82.22.50.11 ( talk) 12:43, 2020 November 22
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Is there availalable data on the number of registered voters, and the turnout in the first round?-- Aréat ( talk) 19:48, 29 December 2020 (UTC)
We have an alternative to the misleading choropleth maps (or filled area) commonly used on these election articles, one which does not omit data on the number of votes cast. Since the issue is idenitical, I'd suggest going to the discussion over at Talk:2020–21 United States Senate election in Georgia#Misleading map is misleading. Being easy to read means it is easy to be misled. -- Dennis Bratland ( talk) 01:09, 7 January 2021 (UTC)
Lately, I've seen some edits that look like vandalism, at least in my opinion. Should we make this article semi-protected? On another note, should we also add a picture for Deborah Jackson, the other Democratic candidate? PuzzledWaste ( talk) 19:50, 13 January 2021 (UTC)
So is nobody going to discuss the really awful formatting for the county section? I don't get why the whole article beyond the Hypothetical polling section is just one template in the first place, but ignoring that, something needs to be done about the county table. Wikipedia isn't the place for publishing work-in-progress edits, that's the job of the sandbox. It appears that the county results table is really, I mean really badly formatted, I don't think I need to explain. Should I revert to the version before the county results were added? Thegayfrenchbullie ( talk) 4:29, 18 January 2021 (UTC)
Article says so but I'm doubtful. Wasn't there a black senator from South Carolina? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2402:8100:3974:F003:B963:23E:C0AD:EA98 ( talk) 17:30, 12 February 2021 (UTC)
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– Per MOS:DATERANGE, "2020–2021" is preferred instead "2020–21", same as previous page that was moved. 36.77.93.223 ( talk) 19:11, 15 April 2021 (UTC)
Apparently between this runoff & the 2022 runoff, Georgia changed the rules so that a runoff election had to be held within four weeks of the first round election. GoodDay ( talk) 04:51, 14 November 2022 (UTC)
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Per AJC [1], the following (notable) Republicans have submitted an application to be named for the seat:
I think there should be a subsection within Republicans for those who have applied online. There is a meaningful distinction between the potential candidates about whom the media has speculated and the candidates who have taken the step to submit an application. Thoughts? Jacoby531 ( talk) 22:42, 27 September 2019 (UTC)
What is the logic of including the current five candidates in the infobox?-- Mpen320 ( talk) 19:47, 24 June 2020 (UTC)
The current version of the article refers to "nominees" of the Libertarian and Green parties, but even though these individuals are their parties' only candidates they should not be called that. Georgia's special election laws place all candidates, with or without a party, on the same ballot without any notion of party nomination. Airbornemihir ( talk) 00:22, 28 August 2020 (UTC)
I have restored the original version of this article's formatting: [1]. Since there are not separate party primaries, the candidates should be in a single top-level section. This is consistent with 2020 Georgia's 5th congressional district special election, 2017 Georgia's 6th congressional district special election, 2010 Georgia's 9th congressional district special election, and 2007 Georgia's 10th congressional district special election, as well as articles for Washington and California (all elections) and Hawaii (special elections) which have all candidates running in a single initial election. There is no consensus to use the other format. Reywas92 Talk 05:30, 5 August 2020 (UTC)
Is there a better source on Matt Lieberman's endorsements? Almost all of them are supported by a single news article about a fundraising event held in CT last November, prior to any other candidates entering the race or even the appointment of Kelly Loeffler. The article doesn't once use the word "endorse" or even imply that the politicians had endorsed his candidacy. The article only substantiates that these individuals were present at a fundraising event, not that they endorsed the candidate at the event or even that they donated to attend (vs being comped, as one might expect might occur for e.g. the state party chairwoman at the time). This may have made sense early in the campaign, when the candidate had all party support (given he was the sole candidate), but at this point, that's fairly spurious evidence in the face of nearly the entire party endorsing Pastor Warnock. Jbbdude ( talk) 19:35, 21 September 2020 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: Moved; the practice for multi-stage elections that overlap a new year is X–X+1 Y election, as has been shown through examples on this page by Number 57. The examples by SecretName101 show this practice applies to US elections. Sceptre ( talk) 03:22, 16 November 2020 (UTC)
– These senate elections consist of one stage in 2020 and one stage in 2021 (runoff election), so it makes sense for the article title to reflect this (c.f. 1788–89 United States presidential election) Chessrat ( talk, contributions) 23:18, 5 November 2020 (UTC)
So embarrassing, to see the result of this RM. For goodness sake, it's a part of the 2020 United States Senate elections. This isn't a case of pre-1913, where the state legislature chose :( GoodDay ( talk) 14:50, 19 November 2020 (UTC)
How surprising the ruling of this RM? I accidently undid the closer's moves. GoodDay ( talk) 15:28, 19 November 2020 (UTC)
As I understand it, the winner's term will run until January 2023. This information should be placed in the lead section. -- 174.95.161.129 ( talk) 04:58, 12 November 2020 (UTC)
I'm not sure what this question was looking for, but here's the lede from the NYT that uses the title: Nov. 1, 2020 DALTON, Ga. — On a recent Sunday morning in northwest Georgia, the Rev. Raphael G. Warnock, the South’s most prominent Black preacher and a Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate, was giving his stump speech, mixing a little laid-back pulpit humor with a searing, Jeremiah-like condemnation of Republicans in the age of Trump. I'll remove the question as answered. Activist ( talk) 07:52, 16 November 2020 (UTC)
Can somebody fix the pre-runoff graph? BSMIsEditing ( talk) 13:24, 22 November 2020 (UTC)
Would it be possible to change the color scheme on the county-level results map in the infobox? I understand the reasoning behind having Loeffler and Collins as similar colors, but it makes it very difficult to tell who won which county, especially given how pale most of the counties are. Maybe instead of orange and pink, we could do red and gold, or something with a bit more contrast? It would make sense for Loeffler to be red, because she's the GOP runoff candidate. Jacoby531 ( talk) 20:38, 22 November 2020 (UTC)
As is, it's effectively unreadable in South Georgia. 128.62.152.16 ( talk) 22:35, 23 November 2020 (UTC)
Currently the article has a link to the generic article "two-round election", which obviously is of no help with respect to the specific form of the election to take place in January. I had thought that adding information to rectify this was self-evidently of value, but tag requests have been REPEATEDLY deleted without explanation. I personally do not have the knowledge to improve the article, hence tagging for clarification. I apologise for vandalising in my anger, but deletionists are just vandals that hide by posting links to style-guides. 82.22.50.11 ( talk) 12:43, 2020 November 22
On mobile, the sections starting from “Election-related lawsuits” (“See also”, etc.) are rendered as subsections under “Special election”. Sections are formatted (==Headers==) and displayed correctly on desktop view. Using Safari on iPhone X, iOS 14.2 Rubixmann ( talk) 00:19, 24 December 2020 (UTC)
Is there availalable data on the number of registered voters, and the turnout in the first round?-- Aréat ( talk) 19:48, 29 December 2020 (UTC)
We have an alternative to the misleading choropleth maps (or filled area) commonly used on these election articles, one which does not omit data on the number of votes cast. Since the issue is idenitical, I'd suggest going to the discussion over at Talk:2020–21 United States Senate election in Georgia#Misleading map is misleading. Being easy to read means it is easy to be misled. -- Dennis Bratland ( talk) 01:09, 7 January 2021 (UTC)
Lately, I've seen some edits that look like vandalism, at least in my opinion. Should we make this article semi-protected? On another note, should we also add a picture for Deborah Jackson, the other Democratic candidate? PuzzledWaste ( talk) 19:50, 13 January 2021 (UTC)
So is nobody going to discuss the really awful formatting for the county section? I don't get why the whole article beyond the Hypothetical polling section is just one template in the first place, but ignoring that, something needs to be done about the county table. Wikipedia isn't the place for publishing work-in-progress edits, that's the job of the sandbox. It appears that the county results table is really, I mean really badly formatted, I don't think I need to explain. Should I revert to the version before the county results were added? Thegayfrenchbullie ( talk) 4:29, 18 January 2021 (UTC)
Article says so but I'm doubtful. Wasn't there a black senator from South Carolina? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2402:8100:3974:F003:B963:23E:C0AD:EA98 ( talk) 17:30, 12 February 2021 (UTC)
There is a move discussion in progress on Talk:2020–21 United States Senate election in Georgia which affects this page. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you. — RMCD bot 22:20, 7 April 2021 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: No consensus to move ( non-admin closure) ( t · c) buidhe 06:26, 23 April 2021 (UTC)
– Per MOS:DATERANGE, "2020–2021" is preferred instead "2020–21", same as previous page that was moved. 36.77.93.223 ( talk) 19:11, 15 April 2021 (UTC)
Apparently between this runoff & the 2022 runoff, Georgia changed the rules so that a runoff election had to be held within four weeks of the first round election. GoodDay ( talk) 04:51, 14 November 2022 (UTC)