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Georgia sets new voting record for runoffs
The Hill ^ | 12/18/20 09:42 AM EST | BY MAX GREENWOOD

Posted on 12/18/2020 1:04:19 PM PST by RandFan

More people cast ballots on the first day of early voting in Georgia’s Senate runoffs this week than those that did so when early voting opened ahead of the 2020 general election.

Roughly 168,000 Georgians went to the polls on Monday, the first day to vote early in-person in the state’s two critical Senate runoff elections, according to numbers provided by the Georgia secretary of state’s office. By comparison, some 128,000 voted on the first day of early voting for the November general election.

Another 314,000 people cast absentee ballots on the first day of the early-voting period.

The first-day early in-person turnout broke a record previously set in October when early in-person voting began for the 2020 general election.

Since then, the numbers have only continued to rise. As of Friday morning, more than 1.1 million people had voted in the Jan. 5 Georgia runoff elections, according to numbers collated by Georgia Votes, a website that tracks early voting data.

That lags only slightly behind the roughly 1.2 million that had voted at this point in the 2020 general election.

Still, the turnout is stunningly high, given the timing of the two runoffs, in which Sens. Kelly Loeffler (R-Ga.) and David Perdue (R-Ga.) are facing Democrats Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff, respectively.

Already, some 24,000 people who did not vote in the November general election have cast ballots in the runoff, according to The U.S. Elections Project, another website that tracks early voting.

At stake in the Jan. 5 runoff elections is party control of the Senate. Republicans currently hold a 50-48 seat edge in the upper chamber and a pair of Democratic wins in the Georgia runoffs would effectively hand Democrats an evenly divided chamber, in which Vice President-elect Kamala Harris would cast the tie-breaking vote.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Georgia
KEYWORDS: 2020; 2021; fraud; ga; georgiarunnoff; georgiasenate; karlrove; karlrovefail; stopthesteal
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Looks like Stacey is delivering the goods
1 posted on 12/18/2020 1:04:19 PM PST by RandFan
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[[Already, some 24,000 people who did not vote in the November general election have cast ballots in the runoff,]]

Against the rule I thought? If they didn’t vote in nov, they aren’t supposed to vote in runoff?


2 posted on 12/18/2020 1:05:45 PM PST by Bob434
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It won’t be long before ballots cast out-number legally registered living voters.


3 posted on 12/18/2020 1:06:31 PM PST by Semper Vigilantis (FYI: People SUCCEED, States SECEDE.)
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The electorate is 4 points more GOP compared to the same point in the General.


4 posted on 12/18/2020 1:06:34 PM PST by TexasGurl24
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To: RandFan

Sounds like the dead are rising from their graves.


5 posted on 12/18/2020 1:07:02 PM PST by EvilCapitalist (We must FIGHT, I repeat it sir, we must FIGHT! -Patrick Henry)
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Another 314,000 people cast absentee ballots on the first day of the early-voting period.

I can believe that 314,000 absentee ballots were returned on the first day of early voting.

I highly doubt that they were submitted by 314,000 different people.

6 posted on 12/18/2020 1:07:07 PM PST by Yo-Yo (is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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Against the rule I thought? If they didn’t vote in nov, they aren’t supposed to vote in runoff?

It was a rule, it should still be a rule, but it's not any longer. Hello Chuckie Schumer, it's his turn anyway!

7 posted on 12/18/2020 1:09:41 PM PST by JonPreston ( Crash the whole corrupt thing down)
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To: RandFan

The fix is in.


8 posted on 12/18/2020 1:10:34 PM PST by absalom01 (You should do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, and you should never wish to do less.)
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9 posted on 12/18/2020 1:11:08 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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What happens when Americans are being censored.


10 posted on 12/18/2020 1:14:44 PM PST by yoe (President Trump works for We The People - not China as Biden has and will.)
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To: BenLurkin

World Record Crooked Election


11 posted on 12/18/2020 1:14:44 PM PST by CMailBag
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To: Bob434

correct according to the LAW


12 posted on 12/18/2020 1:17:22 PM PST by norinosforme (am i nuts )
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“Looks like Stacey is delivering the goods”

Yep.


13 posted on 12/18/2020 1:19:01 PM PST by brownsfan (The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.)
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I wonder how many know Biden had brain surgery, twice.


14 posted on 12/18/2020 1:20:23 PM PST by brownsfan (The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.)
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Fraud before our eyes.


15 posted on 12/18/2020 1:20:24 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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Doesn’t GA law say that the only electors that can participate in the runoff are the ones who voted in the Nov. 3 race? How on EARTH can they prove that?

Demoncrats. They truly are of their father the devil.

Hoss


16 posted on 12/18/2020 1:20:47 PM PST by HossB86 (Christ, and Him alone.)
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If she does, you can bet she will beat Kemp in 2022.


17 posted on 12/18/2020 1:21:02 PM PST by Wally_Kalbacken
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The naive GOP should have demanded voting machine audits and signature verifications before scheduling these runoffs.

Why play another high stakes game with a stacked deck of cards against which you’ve already been cheated???!!!


18 posted on 12/18/2020 1:23:17 PM PST by edie1960
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If you take a suitcase full of ballots do you have to leave the suitcase there?


19 posted on 12/18/2020 1:29:00 PM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: EvilCapitalist

I never knew being dead was such hard work.


20 posted on 12/18/2020 1:29:50 PM PST by noiseman (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.`)
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