Date set for election do-over

The date for the special election in northeast Georgia’s House District 28 has been set for December 4: state Rep Dan Gasaway  (pictured) will again face former Banks County School Superintendent Chris Erwin in a Republican primary. Erwin won the original election back in May by a 67-vote margin, but the primary results were tossed by Athens Judge David Sweat earlier this week because some voters in the district that covers parts of Banks, Stephens, and Habersham counties were given the wrong ballots.

“It’s important that voters’ votes are counted correctly,” Gasaway said Wednesday. “We should all hold this as a very important part of our country. This is who we are as a democracy.”

“We’re ready to run and win again,” Erwin said. “We thought we had proven our case. The courts didn’t see it that way. … Let’s get it right this time.”