The State House will likely vote to move the primary date up to February 5 tomorrow, but in doing so they will so lower the percentage requirement to win the election ("primary, special primary, election, or special election") from 50% + 1 vote to 45%. The reasoning is that this will end runoffs, which is really to prevent third parties from having an impact in elections.

But I'd like to remind Georgia Republicans that without a runoff against David Burgess and Chuck Eaton, which the Libertarian candidate caused, the Republicans wouldn't have picked up that PSC seat. One could argue that Eaton's win in the runoff dealt a very big blow to Georgia Democrats.

If Georgia wanted to prevent runoffs then we should go to Instant Runoff Voting.

You can view the legislation here.