Voters in Georgia have shattered the record for the most ballots cast in a single day during early voting, days before the Dec. 6 senate runoff election between incumbent Democratic senator Raphael Warnock and Republican Herschel Walker.
According to Gabriel Sterling, the chief operating officer at the Georgia secretary of state’s office, 350,574 Georgians voted on Friday as of 8pm.
“That’s just an amazing number,” Sterling wrote on Twitter. “Great job by the counties’ elections officials and voters.”
The previous record was 300,438 set on Monday.
Georgians are heading back to the polls because neither Warnock nor Walker received more than 50 percent of the vote in the November midterm elections, though Warnock finished slightly ahead. Warnock won 49.4% of the vote and Walker got 48.5% of the vote.
The winner of the runoff will determine whether Democrats expand their majority in the upper chamber to 51 or if the Senate will remain evenly divided with Vice President Kamala Harris serving as the tiebreaker.
