Matthew Brown: Georgia’s runoff system was created to dilute Black voting power: Two Black men are competing for a U.S. Senate seat in a process crafted by segregationists to stifle Black political power.

Tuesday’s runoff election between #Warnock and Walker "is the product of an unusual general election runoff system that was pushed by a powerful Georgia segregationist who sought to blunt the power of Black voters in the 1960s."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/12/05/georgia-runoff-history/ #Georgia #uspolitics #votingrights