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Why did the Georgia Supreme Court decide who had the right to be the governor following the 1946 gubernatorial election?

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The Election was won by Governor Eugene Talmadge, who died weeks later in mid-December, before his scheduled inauguration in January 1947. Then Georgia called out the county unit system to determine victors in statewide elections. Then after these elections, Melvin E. Thompson became the 70th Governor of Georgia.

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