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Atlanta mayoral race tightens as more votes are counted

November 7, 2017 Atlanta: Garrett Clum brought his dog, Beau to vote on Tuesday. Voters lined up early at Henry W. Grady High School at 929 Charles Allen Dr NE in Atlanta on Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2017 to cast their votes. Only about 20,000 of 250,000 registered voters cast early ballots in Atlanta’s mayoral election, a likely sign of low turnout for Tuesday’s vote to succeed Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed. A late WSB-TV poll, released on Friday, showed Councilwoman Keisha Lance Bottoms leading Councilwoman Mary Norwood for the first time with 25 percent of the vote to Norwood’s 23 percent.  JOHN SPINK/JSPINK@AJC.COM

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November 7, 2017 Atlanta: Garrett Clum brought his dog, Beau to vote on Tuesday. Voters lined up early at Henry W. Grady High School at 929 Charles Allen Dr NE in Atlanta on Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2017 to cast their votes. Only about 20,000 of 250,000 registered voters cast early ballots in Atlanta’s mayoral election, a likely sign of low turnout for Tuesday’s vote to succeed Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed. A late WSB-TV poll, released on Friday, showed Councilwoman Keisha Lance Bottoms leading Councilwoman Mary Norwood for the first time with 25 percent of the vote to Norwood’s 23 percent.  JOHN SPINK/JSPINK@AJC.COM
By Brian O'Shea
Nov 8, 2017

The election of a new Atlanta mayor, expected to require a runoff, was just one of many elections across metro Atlanta on Tuesday, Nov. 7.

In the Atlanta mayoral election, Keisha Lance-Bottoms was leading Mary Norwood, but the two were expected to be in a runoff. Latest vote counts

Voters were also choosing a new chairman for the Fulton County Commission and several replacements for the Georgia Legislature. The city of Roswell vote will determine the successor to Mayor Jere Wood, who was first elected in 1997.

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Brian O'Shea is a senior digital producer for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He works with the newsroom to identify topics of interest to Atlanta readers and also works with voter guides and election results. He is a graduate of the University of Georgia and The Ohio State University Kiplinger Program in Public Affairs Journalism.

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