The Republicans Sens. Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue face two second rounds after not getting more than 50% of the votes in the November general election. If Democrats Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock win both seats, the Senate will be divided into 50-50, causing any legislative ties to be broken by Vice President-elect Kamala Harris.
While 1,713,950 Georgians personally voted at early polling stations across the state, 856,643 voted absent by mail, out of nearly 1.4 million absentee votes requested. The race attracted national attention, with President-elect Joe Biden, Harris and President Donald Trump scheduled to hold statewide campaign events in the last week leading up to next Tuesday.
Voters in the state were bombarded with an impressive amount of ads leading up to Election Day, with spending that raised eyebrows of $ 540 million, both from ads from candidates and sponsors from other states.
The races are also drawing national attention, as Trump continues to plead unsubstantiated allegations of electoral fraud, calling on Republican Governor Brian Kemp to step down on Wednesday. Trump lost his state by a narrow margin to Biden in November.
An audit of signature of absentee votes cast in the November election, requested by the Trump campaign and released on Tuesday by Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger’s office, “found no fraudulent absentee votes and found that the County Elections Department Cobb’s “had a 99.99% accuracy rate in performing correct signature verification procedures. “