While 2025 is an off-year for most elections, all Georgia voters will soon have a chance to go to the polls to cast ballots in a special election for two seats on the state’s Public Service Commission. At the same time, some Southeast Georgia voters will be choosing their local elected officials.

Georgia typically doesn’t have statewide elections in odd-numbered years, but a legal fight led to the 2024 PSC elections being pushed back.

While members of the commission must live in certain districts, they are elected statewide. That practice was challenged in court as being discriminatory to Black people, but the legal fight ultimately left the statewide voting method in place.

The five-member Georgia Public Service Commission sets rates and oversees generation plans for Georgia Power, and

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