There may be no quick answers on Tuesday night’s high-stakes Senate races in Georgia.
In remarks to Fox News, Georgia-based GOP consultant Chip Lake said vote tallies for Republican incumbent Sens. Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue may track the same slow path as in the presidential election in November.
"We can expect a very, very, close election," Lake told the news outlet. "An election that might be so close that we might not know who won these races on Tuesday night. It could be a few days after that until all the votes are counted."
More than 3 million people — 40% of the state’s registered voters — voted by early in-person voting or by absentee ballot, Fox News reported, estimating from 800,000 to possibly over 1 million could cast ballots on Election Day.
"I anticipate there will be a high turnout," Gabriel Sterling, the voting systems implementation manager for the Georgia secretary of state's office, told reporters Monday, Fox News noted.
The vote count starts after polls close at 7 p.m.
If history were to repeat itself, leads in the Senate battle — where Perdue faced off against Democrat Jon Ossoff and Loeffler went up against Democrat Raphael Warnock — could start out one way and finish another.
Fox News reported Perdue and Loeffler could jump out to an early lead both because GOP areas of the state often report their results first, and because GOP voters are more likely to vote on Election Day or at early in-person polling stations. Those votes are often counted first by many of Georgia’s counties.
The news outlet noted Democrat counties, on the other hand, have traditionally seen slower vote counting and election results.
If the final margins are within 0.5% of the vote, Georgia law allows the losing candidate to ask for a recount.
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