In-Person Early Voting Begins In GA Senate Runoffs

The Wall Street Journal reports:

Early in-person voting began Monday in Georgia’s U.S. Senate runoffs, with both parties racing to turn out supporters for the Jan. 5 election that will determine control of the Senate.

The opening of some polling locations for voters comes as roughly 1.2 million voters already have requested absentee ballots for the runoff election, and more than 200,000 of them have returned their ballots.

The use of absentee ballots exploded during the pandemic and were crucial to President-elect Joe Biden’s victory in Georgia, with the Democrat winning 848,726 absentee votes compared with 450,522 for President Trump.

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