Over 1 Million Absentee Ballots Requested for Georgia Senate Runoffs

Democratic nominee for one of Georgia's U.S. Senate seats Raphael Warnock, left, and Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-Ga.) in file photographs. Getty Images

Over 1 million mail-in ballots have been requested for the upcoming U.S. Senate runoff elections in Georgia, officials said Monday.

Approximately 1,037,172 absentee ballot applications have been entered into the voter registration systems, Gabriel Sterling, the state’s voting system implementation manager, told reporters at a press conference.