Nearly 1 Million Mail-In Ballots Requested for Georgia Senate Runoffs

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

Nearly one million absentee, or mail-in, ballots have been requested for the two U.S. Senate runoffs in Georgia, an elections official announced Wednesday.

Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, a Republican, told reporters at a press briefing that officials have received 993,735 requests for mail-in ballots. Counties have already received back 11,474.