Georgia voters lined up in long lines on New Year’s Eve, the last day to vote early in the Peach State Senate elections.
Images from polling stations posted on social media showed long lines of Georgians swinging through buildings to slay election day traffic amid the coronavirus pandemic ahead of the January 5 run-off.
Georgia Republican Sens. David Perdue
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Kelly Loeffler Ossoff Shuts Down Loeffler’s Criticism of Warnock: She Campaigns With a Klansman Jeff Stein: Battle Over K Direct Payments Puts Huge Pressure on Republican Caucus Kemp Rejects Trump’s Call to Step Down as ‘a Distraction’ MORE will face against Democratic challengers Jon Ossoff and Rev. Raphael Warnock respectively.
LIVE WATCH the line of people waiting to vote at 7:30 am on NYE – the last day of early voting in Cobb County, Georgia. As a reminder, the latest state elections will ultimately determine the balance of power in Washington DC. pic.twitter.com/XSSCPUI8Gi
– Priscilla Thompson (@PriscillaWT) December 31, 2020
A Cobb County woman told NBC reporter Priscilla Thompson she got in line to vote at 6:30 am and waited an hour and a half before reaching the ballot box.
Last day of early vote in Cobb County. Line is already winding around polling station location while polls are opening. # Election2020 #runoff #Georgia pic.twitter.com/6bZXaaqPU9
– Dave R. Watson + (@daverwatson) December 31, 2020
A line goes around the corner as voters wait to cast their votes at the Smyrna Community Center on the last day of early voting in Cobb County, Georgia Senate second round. pic.twitter.com/gF5AxiBlRY
– The Hill (@thehill) December 31, 2020
More than 2.8 million residents of Georgia have already voted, either by mail or early voting starting Thursday.
According to the Georgia Elections Division, that number accounts for more than a third of all registered voters in the state.
The second election will determine which party will control the upper chamber in the next Congress. Should Democrats take the Senate, as President-elect they will control the House, Senate, and White House Joe Biden
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Biden was upset in November President Trump
Donald Trump Trump Shortens Trip to Florida, Returns to Washington on Thursday Intel Deputy Chairman Says Cyber Attack of Government Agencies “ May Have Started Earlier. ” in the state of Peach, taking Georgia by a small margin. He is the first Democratic presidential candidate to win the state in more than 20 years.