ATLANTA — A Georgia Senate committee has approved legislation that would ban ranked-choice voting in Georgia.
A well-funded campaign is afoot across the nation to allow ranked-choice voting, which allows voters to rank candidates by preference, Senate Majority Whip Randy Robertson, R-Cataula, told members of the Senate Ethics Committee late Tuesday, Jan. 23.
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