a focal sight ration estate, greer was determined to stop black georgians growing political power. quote, if you want to establish if i was racially prejudiced, i was. if you want to establish that some of my political activity was racially motivated, it was. quiver would say in a deposition years later. in 1963, one year after the supreme court struck down the counter unit system, gruver now back in office, proposed a new election system. the runoff. hoover explicitly talked about how even if the white votes were divided in the first election and a black bag the runoff, whites could come together as a majority to win in the runoff. in 1960, for the runoff system became law in georgia. no blacks had been elected to the senior offices in georgia, meaning governor, lieutenant governor, secretary of state, ever. so apparently it worked.