Posted on 01/05/2021 7:59:59 AM PST by Red Badger
Republicans are hoping for high in-person turnout on Tuesday as their party's control of the Senate hangs in the balance.
Democrats' get-out-the-vote efforts ahead of Tuesday's runoff election in Georgia appear to be lagging behind those in the November general election.
To date, the early voting numbers are below the 2020 election figures.
"When we start early voting today, we have every belief that we're going to see a turnout that is unlike anything Georgia has seen," former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams, director of the voting rights organization Fair Fight, said on Dec. 14. "We have the investment. We have the momentum."
According to Georgia Votes, a website that compiles official Georgia state voting statistics, 3,041,581 Georgians have voted to date in the runoff election, compared to 3,936,215 in the general election.
The total number of ballots cast at this point is higher than the 2008 runoff election turnout in Georgia but it lags behind the 2020 general election. In the 2008 runoff, about 2.1 million Georgians cast ballots.
The breakdown of the 3 million ballots cast so far is 966,702 mail-in ballots and 2,074,879 in-person early votes.
Republicans are hoping for high in-person turnout on Tuesday as their party's control of the Senate hangs in the balance.
While President Trump continues to criticize state Republicans over their handling of Georgia's 2020 general election contest, Abrams said on Sunday that the "mission" of her group is to increase turnout among Democrats who want more than a $600 stimulus check to help them get through the pandemic.
Georgia Democratic State Rep. Vernon Jones, who endorsed Trump last year, told Just the News on Monday that the early voting turnout is historically high for a runoff election, but Republicans "normally want their voters to come out on Election Day."
"I have not seen a big effort from Republicans to push early voting again this year," he said. "I have seen them push, though, to get out and come back for this runoff."
"I can tell you Georgia is still a red state regardless of what happened," Jones added, referring to the November election results. "Georgia is not a blue state. It's still very much red. The numbers are there, but if they don't come out, they [Republicans] could lose this election. I hope and I believe they will turnout."
Incumbent Republican Sen. David Perdue and Democrat Jon Ossoff, the head of an investigative television production company, will face off in Tuesday's runoff election. Incumbent Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler and Democrat Rev. Raphael Warnock are also on the ballot on Tuesday.
I don’t believe any of the early reports because FRAUD is in the air.
Grrrr! Dambit, Gumby!, they don’t need to vote. That’s what the machines are for.
Agreed. I’m certainly hoping for the best, but I’m also assuming the worst.
I’m on the edge of my seat. Will Mitch get the power to get even richer, or will the Dems be able to bypass him?
Why do they even need voters anymore? Can they just create all the ballot they need?
Does it matter?
Mitch sold out Trump for Biden anyways
Whoever wins, we lose
Just to keep up appearances..................
Funny how nobody shows up in Philly to vote but millions of votes were cast
They have been playing this game for decades, we just finally noticed
So? Who needs voters when you have voting machines?
Living, breathing Democrat voters weren’t mobilized in November.
The few honest Democrats are embarrassed that their leadership will cheat and lie about it. Anything to obtain power.
I live in Cobb county (Marietta) Georgia, and our neighborhood has had a lot of canvassers walking almost daily.
My neighborhood dates back to 1961 with about two hundred homes, and a very high percentage of them have become rental properties, with a lot of minority voters.
Sadly, I’ve seen this district move from the once GOP strong Newt district to what it is now.
Still, I’ve seen GOP canvassers at my door, as well. The GOP got too comfortable here and now have to play from behind to win.
I lived in Norcross for a time in early 80................
What is the over/under on how long it will take to get real numbers from this election day???
Real numbers is what you will get from GA instead of integers, or whole numbers, as in '1 man 1 vote'. Real numbers are fractional, a part of the voter fraud.
STILL we need to win these races!! PLEASSSSEEE GA don’t let TEXAS folk down!! Plezzzzzzz!🙏🏻 GO 👏🏼out and VOTE...Stop brooding and go vote! Plezzzz!! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Are they using Dominion voting machines in the runoff election?
Yes................
According to a caller a few minutes ago on the Rush show GA conservatives are not showing up at the booth! 😢... MY GD I’d rather have backstabbing Mitch then ANY RAT as majority leader! 🙏🏻🙏🏻PLEASE GO OUT AND VOTE...start calling friends family etc to go VOTE!!🙏🏻🙏🏻
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