December 16, 2020
More Voters Turn Up For First Day Of Early Voting In Georgia Senate Runoffs Than General Election
More than 169,000 Georgians voted on the first day of early voting for the Georgia Senate runoffs, a number that eclipses the first day numbers from the general election.
Data from Georgia Votes, shows 168,293 state residents voted Dec. 14, almost 30,000 more voters than the first day of early voting for the general election. Voting rights activist Stacey Abrams noted the difference on her Twitter page.
BREAKING: More than 168,000 Georgians voted early in person yesterday for the Jan. 5 runoff election — a 23% increase from the first day of early voting in October.🙌🏾 (source: https://t.co/qql3A3lfyB)
Join them by making your voting plan at https://t.co/lClnYYPro6.🗳 #gapol
— Stacey Abrams (@staceyabrams) December 15, 2020
Additionally, 314,000 residents have already voted by mail, meaning almost 500,000 people have already voted. Abrams told CNN the Democratic Party is confident about its chances in the runoffs Rev. Raphael Warnock is taking on Kelly Loeffler in one race, while Jon Ossoff is going against David Perdue in the other runoff.
Early voting in Georgia has begun while Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, a Republican, slammed his own party mates Loeffler and Perdue Tuesday for blaming him for President Trump’s loss in the state.
Raffensperger also took to Twitter to slam the two senators as they pushed for him to release data that he’s already made publicly available, but the two Senators do not believe is real.
“As embarrassing as it is for Sens. Perdue & Loeffler not to know that the data they want is already publicly available from the Secretary of State, it’s even worse that they’re not aware their own campaigns already have the data they’re looking for.”