Pandemic, Election Integrity Top Of Mind As Georgia Senate Runoffs Enter Final Days

Voters wait to cast ballots at the Ponce de Leon library branch on Wednesday, the final day of early voting in Fulton County.

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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.