Georgia polls open at 7 a.m. on Tuesday within the all-important Senate runoff elections, however we received’t begin getting outcomes till shortly
Georgia polls open at 7 a.m. on Tuesday within the all-important Senate runoff elections, however we received’t begin getting outcomes till shortly after voting areas begin closing at 7 p.m. With New York Occasions reporters on the bottom throughout the state, right here’s a fast information for how you can observe alongside.
First, the races:
One is a commonly scheduled contest wherein Senator David Perdue, a Republican, is working for a second time period in opposition to Jon Ossoff, a Democrat. Mr. Perdue nearly received in November however ended up simply shy of a majority, with 49.7 p.c of the vote to Mr. Ossoff’s 47.9 p.c, triggering a runoff below Georgia legislation.
The second race is a particular election between Senator Kelly Loeffler, a Republican, and the Rev. Raphael Warnock, a Democrat. In a crowded discipline in November, Mr. Warnock acquired 32.9 p.c of the vote and Ms. Loeffler, who was appointed to her seat, acquired 25.9 p.c. The winner of the runoff will serve out the rest of former Senator Johnny Isakson’s time period, which ends in 2022.
If Democrats win each races, they may create a 50-50 cut up within the Senate, with Vice President-elect Kamala Harris performing as tiebreaker. If Republicans win both race, they may retain management of the Senate and the power to dam a lot of President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s agenda.
We’ll have a good suggestion by midmorning Tuesday about what turnout seems like: Democrats are relying on huge numbers in main cities and the Atlanta suburbs, and Republicans want quite a lot of voters in smaller cities, rural areas and strongholds like northern Georgia.
The Occasions will likely be overlaying the runoffs all day and evening. A stay weblog will likely be revealed Tuesday morning, and a hyperlink will likely be added to this text as soon as it’s accessible.
You too can observe the vote counts on The Occasions’s outcomes pages, which is able to embrace stay evaluation from reporters. These pages will go stay Tuesday afternoon.
Once we’ll know the winners is an open query. With outcomes coming in round 7:30 p.m., we might know who received by late Tuesday evening — but when the races are very tight, it might additionally take a number of days. Whereas greater than three million Georgians voted early, their ballots can’t be tabulated till the polls shut.
Lengthy strains might additionally trigger delays. (Any Georgian who’s in line by 7 p.m. has the correct to vote.) In previous elections, strains have been a selected downside in and round cities, like Atlanta, which have massive Black populations and are closely Democratic.
When Georgia’s early voting interval for the overall election started in October, some voters in Atlanta and its suburbs, similar to Fulton and Gwinnett Counties, waited so long as eight hours, and features had been additionally lengthy in Chatham County, which incorporates Savannah. Within the state’s major election in June, it was previous midnight by the point the final voters — all of whom had been in line by 7 p.m. — solid their ballots.