This voting system was used in Georgia's primaries from 1917 to 1962, allotting votes by county in party primary elections and giving a great amount of power to rural areas at the expense of urban population centers
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Georgia voters faced a decision in last week’s primary beyond which presidential candidate they wanted to support. In Georgia, we have open primaries, which means that we get to choose whether we vote in the Republican or the Democratic primary. True-believing die-hards from either party will rarely waver on which ballot they choose, but as increasing numbers of voters identify as “independent,” and thus nonpartisan voters, many voters determine which party’s primary they’ll vote in on an election-by-election basis.

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