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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At what point will more people have voted ahead of the Jan 5th election day than the state’s total population?
I didn’t even know he had a brain.
I think you had to be registered for the general election. New registrants should not be able to vote.
You’re correct, but that’s not what Georgia is doing. They allowed new registrations through 12/7/2020.
So.... if the initial vote was fraudulent to begin with, why bother with a runoff. Bread and circuses?
Yes.
Has Johnny Mercer voted yet? There’s a great cemetery in Savannah —registers are combing the Garden of Good and Evil.
"(10) The run-off primary, special primary runoff, run-off election, or special election runoff shall be a continuation of the primary, special primary, election, or special election for the particular office concerned. Only the electors who were duly registered to vote and not subsequently deemed disqualified to vote in the primary, special primary, election, or special election for candidates for that particular office shall be entitled to vote therein, and only those votes cast for the persons designated as candidates in such run-off primary, special primary runoff, run-off election, or special election runoff shall be counted in the tabulation and canvass of the votes cast. No elector shall vote in a run-off primary or special primary runoff in violation of Code Section 21-2-224 ."
from Georgia Code Title 21. Elections § 21-2-501
I may be looking at the wrong thing -- this is just what stood out to me.
Hoss
Georgia has two types of runoffs, one for strictly party primaries and one for general elections. In the former, a person who voted in the Democrat primary for example, cannot come vote in the Republican runoff or visa versa. Normally these runoffs are close enough to the original election so as not to have time for additional registrations. For a general election runoff, any registered voter can vote and in this case, the runoff election is far enough out to have allowed for additional voter registrations. We did have a state legislative race runoff December 1 that did not allow for additional registrations. Why the Senate runoffs were not that same day is a mystery to me.
Ahhh. Thanks for the clarification!!!
Hoss
Not true...If you’re registered, you can vote. And they accepted new registrations until Dec 7th.
Not correct.
They had until December 7th to register.
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