Among Democrats, more than 9 in 10 are confident their vote in the runoff will be counted accurately, as are 7 in 10 independents. About half of Republicans feel confident their votes in the runoff elections will be counted accurately. Republicans voting in the Senate runoffs appear to have a bit more faith in today’s election than they do in November’s contest. Among Georgia Republicans who voted in the runoff elections, about three-quarters say that the presidential election in Georgia was not conducted fairly, while more than 9 in 10 Democrats say the election, which President-elect Biden won by less than 12,000 votes, was fair. Those views are sharply divided by party, as both Republican candidates for Senate in today’s contests have expressed support for a planned effort to reject Electoral College votes as they are presented to Congress on Wednesday. Georgia voters who cast ballots in the runoff elections that will determine control of the US Senate mostly say that their state’s presidential election in November was conducted fairly, and around three-quarters say they are confident their vote in this election will be counted accurately, according to the early results of an exit poll conducted for CNN and other news networks by Edison Research. Voters go to the polls at Sara Smith Elementary polling station, in the Buckhead district, on January 5, in Atlanta. That's where President Trump's feud with Republican state officials over his own loss in the state could mean the difference in the GOP having a majority going forward. Which means that Republicans may need a strong showing on Election Day again. Republicans in the state have expressed concern that there may be a Democratic edge in the early vote totals. In Fulton County, the state's most populous, the elections administrator said Monday that the early vote totals were larger for January than for November. Early voting, the counting of which helped drag out the presidential results, is nearly keeping track in these special runoffs. There's plenty of reason to expect a repeat. 13 to project Biden's victory in Georgia's presidential contest, 10 days after Election Day. And the races will determine whether Republicans have the advantage or there's a 50-50 split, with Vice President-elect Kamala Harris giving Democrats the edge.īut it's not clear how quickly we'll know the results. President-elect Joe Biden will either have a Republican-led Senate working to block him or a (barely) Democratic-controlled Senate trying to help him out. The twin US Senate runoffs in Georgia mean everything in American government for the next two years. Polls for Georgia's crucial runoff Senate elections are set to close in the state at 7 p.m. Voters enter a polling station at the Zion Baptist Church on Tuesday, January 5, in Marietta, Georgia.

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