Turnout in Georgia Senate runoff elections surges past 2M votes
More than a quarter of all registered voters in Georgia have already cast a ballot in the crucial contests
By Paul Steinhauser | Fox News
More than 2 million Georgians have already voted in the state's twin Jan. 5 Senate runoff elections, where the Republican majority in the Senate is at stake.
The latest early voting numbers released Thursday morning by state officials indicate that more than a quarter (26.7%) of all registered voters in Georgia have already cast a ballot in the two contests.
More than 1.3 million Georgians have cast a ballot through early in-person voting at polling stations that have been open for a week and a half, with more than 720,000 casting an absentee ballot.
With less than two weeks to go until the runoff elections, the high number of Georgians who have already voted in two Senate runoffs comes close to rivaling the early turnout at this point in the November general election. A record 4.9 million voters in the state cast ballots in the general election.
"It looks like it's going to be a fairly high turnout for a runoff election," M.V. Hood, a political science professor at the University of Georgia and director of the school's survey research center, told Fox News on Thursday. "People are energized."
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