Posted on 01/05/2021 4:37:47 PM PST by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
Though Tuesday marks the end of Georgia’s high-stakes senatorial runoffs, the two winners of the races, which will determine control of the Senate, will likely not be known until Wednesday at the earliest.
The two races have seen record turnout, with over three million votes cast throughout Georgia’s early voting period, according to the U.S. Elections Project. Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said Tuesday that results would likely not be available until the next day due to the overall turnout and high volume of mail-in ballots. (76,000 Georgians Have Registered To Vote Since November)
“Most likely [the races] will be called Wednesday morning,” Raffensperger said on Fox News, adding that his office had encouraged states to begin tabulating absentee ballots ahead of time in order to have a result as soon as possible.
Election officials are allowed to begin processing early votes before polls close, but cannot begin counting ballots until polls across the state close at 7 p.m. EST, according to the Associated Press. And while absentee ballots must be received by the time polls close, military and overseas ballots postmarked by Jan 5. are valid as long as they are received by Friday, and absentee voters have until Friday to fix any problems to their ballot that disqualify their vote.
Even with the head start, election officials doubt that winners will be known late Tuesday due to the increased turnout and expectations that whoever wins will do so by a tight margin. If the races resemble the two-point spread seen between Republican Sen. David Perdue and Jon Ossoff in November, then officials may have to count a greater share of the votes before declaring a winner.
It took 10 days for the Associated Press to call Georgia for President-elect Joe Biden in November, when he beat President Donald Trump by just 0.24% – the closest margin in the country.
The scum on twitter think they have it in the bag.
Have to “fix” those broken voting machines.
That’s good news.. should help Pres. Trump tomorrow.
I hope your right, Ma’am.
Aunt Jemima is cooking up a batch of ballots as we speak.
Remember, before computers, how votes were counted at polling places and the results of elections were known within hours after the voting ended.
ML/NJ
Yeah, right.
If the ‘preferred’ candidate(s) are running behind by about 8:30 p.m., look for major precincts to shut down for the night.
That way, they can restock the necessary ballots to count for the Dems.
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After the November election, ANY precinct that uses Dominion software/machines has NO integrity.
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Dems will count until they win — AGAIN.
Is there any doubt whatsoever that this race is going to be called in the dark of night? Immediately following the 125,000 vote drop in Fulton county. Fulton county will be the only county in the state reporting 18% at 10pm. The rest will be 85+%.
With all the voter fraud going on of course we already know the outcome of the election.
I’m telling you, the red counties need to hold back their count until blue counties submit theirs
Good thinking.
Well what I am seeing on Newsmax looks pretty grim for the Republicans.
They will know the “winners”. They won’t know how many illegal votes they need until tomorrow.
I wonder why? Fulton county again? Phuck Fulton county and for that matter Chatham county in SE Georgia.
Dems cheat in the open and they don’t care—they’ve cheated in the open before on Election Day and caught a on video and no punishments, no arrests, no prosecutions. Why not cheat and don’t even try to hide it. Why not? Nothing to fear.
Doesn’t look good enough. might be good if it takes awhile. Say goodbye to your 401k’s.
Of course we won’t know on Tuesday, as the sumbitches have to figure out how many hundreds of thousands of fake votes to manufacture...
It looks like we’re going to have a Dem senate.
Simple. The $2000 check is in the mail If both Dems win senate seats so said Joe Biden.
If R somehow have a lead, it will not be over. But with a Dem lead, stop the counting it’s finished.
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