Republican senses Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue are both staring down after receiving no more than 50% of the vote in November’s general election. If Democrats Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock both win seats, the Senate will be split 50-50, causing any legislative ties to be broken by incumbent Vice President Kamala Harris.
While 1,713,950 Georgians personally voted in early polling stations across the state, 856,643 voted absent by mail, out of nearly 1.4 million delegates. The race attracted national attention, with the election of President Joe Biden, Harris and President Donald Trump all to hold campaign rallies across the state in the final week before next Tuesday.
Voters in the state were bombarded with a staggering amount of ads until election day, spending an eyebrow-raising increase of $ 540 million, both from candidate ads and sponsors outside the state.
The race is also drawing national attention as Trump continues to make unsubstantiated claims of election fraud, and on Wednesday called on Republican Gov. Brian Kemp to resign. Trump narrowly lost the state in November after Biden lost.
A signature audit of the absentee ballots released in the November election, asking for Trump’s campaign and being released on Tuesday by Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger’s office, ‘found no fraudulent absentee ballots and found that the Cobb County constituency ” had a 99.99% accuracy rate correct signature verification procedures. “