Polls open in Georgia's U.S. Senate runoff election

Record ID: 1700963

  • Title: Polls open in Georgia's U.S. Senate runoff election
  • Date: 6th December 2022
  • Summary: ATLANTA, GEORGIA, UNITED STATES (DECEMBER 6, 2022) (REUTERS) EXTERIOR OF VOTING STATION SIGN OUTSIDE VOTING STATION READING (English): "VOTE HERE" POLL STATION WORKING INDICATING VOTER WHERE TO GO, VOTER CHECKING OUT, VOTER AND CHILD GETTING A (English) ‘I’M A GEORGIA VOTER. I SECURED MY VOTE!’ STICKER CLOSE-UP OF (English) ‘I’M A GEORGIA VOTER. I SECURED MY VOTE!’ STICKERS ON TABLE VARIOUS OF VOTER WITH CHILDREN AT VOTING BOOTH, GOING THROUGH THE DIFFERENT STATIONS SIGN READING (English) ‘VOTER EXIT’ VOTER FROM SHOT 5 CHECKING OUT, GETTING STICKERS FOR CHILDREN, LEAVING SIGN WITH VOTING INSTRUCTIONS VARIOUS OF VOTERS ELECTRONICALLY CHECKING IN TO VOTE BY REGISTRING ON TABLETS MORE VOTERS ARRIVING TO CHECK IN VARIOUS OF VOTERS AT BOOTHS, CHECKING OUT ‘I’M A GEORGIA VOTER. I SECURED MY VOTE!’ STICKER VOTER LEAVING POLLING STATION
  • Embargoed: 20th December 2022 13:41
  • Keywords: Biden Georgia Herschel Senate Trump Warnock election runoff
  • Location: ATLANTA, GEORGIA, UNITED STATES
  • City: ATLANTA, GEORGIA, UNITED STATES
  • Country: US
  • Topics: North America,Government/Politics,Elections/Voting
  • Reuters ID: LVA001479906122022RP1
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Voters in Georgia cast ballots on Tuesday (December 6) in the runoff election in between Democratic U.S. Senator Raphael Warnock and Republican former football star Herschel Walker that will determine whether President Joe Biden's party can expand its razor-thin majority in the Senate.
    The race will also serve as a final test of Donald Trump's clout with midterm election voters as he seeks the Republican nomination to challenge Biden in 2024. The former president had a mixed record in his most competitive endorsements for Congress, including Walker.
    The race, which went to a runoff after neither candidate secured 50% of the vote in the Nov. 8 first round, has become the most expensive of the 2022 U.S. midterm election season, with more than $400 million spent so far. Campaign finance records show Warnock with a clear advantage in fundraising.
    Polls close at 7 p.m. Eastern time (0000 Wednesday GMT), and at least 1.87 million people cast their votes before Election Day, equal to 47% of the Nov. 8 turnout.
    Warnock is the pastor of the historic Atlanta church where slain U.S. civil rights icon Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. once preached. Both Warnock and Walker are Black.
    Republicans won a narrow majority in the U.S. House of Representatives in the Nov. 8 election, but fell short of the "red wave" that some had forecast. The party also failed to capture a Senate majority.
    This is the third Senate runoff in two years in the closely divided state - and the second for Warnock, who first won the seat in a runoff in January 2021.
    (Production: Julio-Cesar Chavez, Temis Tormo)
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