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In a pair of razor-close runoff elections, Raphael Warnock surged ahead of Kelly Loeffler and Jon Ossoff narrowed David Perdue’s lead to less than 1,000 votes after election officials released a large trove of votes from Democrat-heavy DeKalb County and updates from Fulton County late Tuesday.
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Democrats need wins by Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock to get a 50-50 split in the Senate, which would effectively give Democrats control of the chamber since Vice President-elect Kamala Harris would cast tiebreaking votes.
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Similar to Election Day, processing votes will take time as there was once again a large number of early mail-in voting and early in-person voting, in addition to day of voting. But unlike the Nov. 3 election, a steady stream of votes are already being counted by counties. However, officials have said that the results of the election won’t be announced until Wednesday.