Voters cast ballots in two unusual elections on Tuesday: a Georgia special election and a South Dakota gubernatorial runoff. In South Dakota, Gov. Larry Rhoden faces an outsider challenger, Toby Doeden, in what is described as the state’s first gubernatorial runoff. The matchup follows an earlier voting process that led to a second-round contest. In Georgia, voters decide the successor to Rep. David Scott, with Democrats competing to fill the seat through a special election. Multiple outlets frame the races as tests of competing political coalitions, with party organizations and candidates seeking to build momentum heading into later state and national contests. The reporting indicates that the central question in South Dakota is whether the incumbent governor can secure victory against a challenger positioned as outside the usual political field, while in Georgia the focus is on which Democratic candidate will emerge to replace Scott. Polls close in Georgia as results are prepared, while South Dakota’s runoff continues under its newly established election format.