By the time early in-person voting concludes this New Year’s Eve, more than 3 million Georgians will likely have cast ballots ahead of the Jan. 5 runoffs that will determine control of the U.S. Senate.
Those numbers include more than 2 million in-person votes and nearly 900,000 absentee ballots accepted by counties.
Amidst the record turnout for a runoff election in Georgia, Democrat Stacey Abrams, head of the voting rights group Fair Fight Action, sees an even more promising number for her party: more than 100,000 voters who didn’t vote in the November general election.
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