Historic turnout in Georgia in key federal Senate elections

Atlanta – More than 2.3 million people have already voted in the election to elect the two federal senators for Georgia, who will determine control of the U.S. upper house., In what are the second round elections with the largest turnout in the history of the state, the electoral authorities reported on Tuesday.

Georgia’s Secretary of State confirmed to Efe that 1.5 million people had voted in the early elections by Monday, Which in most counties ends this Wednesday, and another 800,000 mailed their ballots or deposited them in special mailboxes placed at various points in the state.

According to official figures, the more than 2.3 million voters who already voted for the January 5, 2021 elections represent approximately 27% of the electoral roll.

In these second-round elections, they grab national attention because they could give it to the president-elect Joe Biden and Democrats in control of Congress, journalist Jon Ossoff and the Rev. Raphael Warnock seek to oust Republican Senators David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler, respectively.

According to the Georgia Votes site, which analyzes statistics released by Georgia’s Secretary of State, a higher proportion of Hispanics and African Americans are voting compared to the general election, which could be a good sign for Democrats.

Ethnic minority voters, especially Latinos and African Americans, were precisely key to Biden’s victory last November in Georgia, a state that had been a Republican stronghold since the early 1990s.

Polls show that the two contests for seats in the federal Senate for Georgia are tied, with only a week to go before the crucial vote.

The 2.3 million readers who already exercised their right to vote is more than the 2.1 million who voted in the entire run-up to the federal Senate election for Georgia in 2008, the last time a tiebreaker may be required.

And there are still several days left to vote in advance and by mail and on election day itself.

This week Republicans also suffered a setback in the courts after a judge rejected a lawsuit filed by Texas conservative group ‘True The Vote’ that questioned the eligibility to vote of more than 4,000 voters.

Federal Magistrate Leslie Abrams Gardner, sister of Democratic activist and former Georgia Gov. Stacey Abrams, prevented election officials from Muscogee counties, where the city of Columbus is located in central Georgia, and Ben Hill would force a large number of voters to prove their residency before voting.

In the final stretch of this campaign and pressured by Democrats and the president himself Donald Trump, Republican candidates said Tuesday that they support the proposal to increase direct deposits to citizens from $ 600 to $ 2,000, contemplated in the economic stimulus package.

Speaking to Fox News, Perdue said he fully supported “what the president is doing right now,” while Loeffler expressed that he has supported Trump “one hundred percent of the time” and that “we need to provide relief to Americans now. “