In the 1992 election, McKinney was elected in the newly re-created 11th District, and was re-elected in 1994. When her district was redrawn and she was easily elected from the new 4th District in the 1996 election, and was re-elected twice. Republicans worked to defeat McKinney undemocratically in 2002 after she voted against the War in Iraq. They did this by voting in the Democratic primary. This was only allowed because of Georgia's open primary election, which permits anyone from any party to vote in any primary.