Nearly 800,000 people have already requested absentee ballots for Georgia’s upcoming runoff elections that will decide which party has the majority in the Senate, the state’s election official said.
Ryan Germany, general counsel for Georgia’s secretary of state, said Monday during an election board meeting that some 762,000 absentee ballots have been requested for the runoffs, reported Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He also noted that a record 1.3 million Georgians voted via absentee ballots during the Nov. 3 general election.
