An interactive guide to Georgia’s Nov. 3 election
Think about the biggest thing you’ll buy this year. Now think about your vote. Only one of them comes with a receipt. So we printed one for the other.
Before we ring you up
Quick thing before we start: who’s at home? Every number from here on is worked out for you, so it helps to know.
Final step
You call it. Pick how you think November goes, and we’ll print the receipt.
The plans
Four candidates. Eight big promises. Tap one and we’ll walk you through it: what it means for you, who feels it, where the money goes, and what has to go right for it to actually happen.
Four tax cuts on this ballot, two from each party. Pick one and slide it in. Your side gets heavier. Watch what gets lighter.
That’s everything
Keep it. Returns accepted Nov. 3. Check your registration and polling place.
What each candidate promised before, and what happened. These are the promises each one made most visibly in office or on the trail, as covered by the press. The jobs differ, so treat these as a record to read, not a score to compare. Every receipt goes on the spike: drag through them.
Federal figures are averages for households in your income range, from nonpartisan analysts. Georgia tax figures are worked out for a typical income in your range using the state’s 2026 rules: a 4.99% flat rate and a $15,000 standard deduction ($30,000 for couples; two or more adults are treated as a married couple). Your own number will differ. Where no credible per-household figure exists, the receipt says “not priced” rather than guessing.
Amounts are per year, compared with today. Neither party gets a color: stamps describe what a promise needs to become real, and the same test is applied to both sides. A Democratic Congress would still need the President’s signature. A Republican Congress would still need to pass new laws and find the money. Either governor would need Georgia’s Republican-led General Assembly.
Every receipt carries a return policy, because every office has one: the length of its term. Senators come back for review every 6 years, governors every 4, House members every 2. The return window for all three is Nov. 3.
A promise is struck through only when its deadline passed unmet or the record contradicts it. Bills that stalled and claims both sides dispute are labeled as what they are. When a promise on today’s ballot has been made before, its receipt shows the prior sale.
The odds use one test for every plan, assuming the candidate wins. Needing a body the other party controls costs two steps. Needing voters or counties to opt in, or having no way to pay for it, costs one. A record of passing something similar adds one; a similar promise that went unkept subtracts one. It’s a judgment call laid out in the open, not a forecast.