Two years ago, Clarence Johnson Jr. came 53 votes shy of being in a runoff for a vacant seat on the Fulton County Superior Court that was eventually won by now-Judge Kelly Lee.

Johnson garnered more than 40,000 votes in that race, but he said coming so close to a chance for a seat on the bench wasn’t what spurred him to try again, this time in a challenge to Superior Court Judge Todd Markle. Instead, it was the appointment of Fulton County’s most recent Superior Court judge that helped convince him to make another run.

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