Early voting in Georgia’s Senate runoff election started Saturday following a court ruling issued by the state’s highest court to determine whether Democrats can expand their majority in the upper chamber.
A top Georgia election official, Gabriel Sterling, wrote that 69,297 people voted on Saturday, the first day of early voting for the Dec. 6 election between Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) and GOP candidate Herschel Walker. Sterling, who drew criticism for his claims following the 2020 election, added that Day 2 of voter turnout will top 100,000.
“We will break 6 figures in voting today cumulatively, and likely may already have,” he wrote on social media Sunday….