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COLUMBUS A post-election audit has found that Ohio’s 2020 votes were tallied to near perfection, including those cast in the presidential contest, the state’s elections chief said Tuesday.
The announcement by Republican Secretary of State Frank LaRose came a day ahead of a brewing showdown in Congress over the outcome of the race between Republican President Donald Trump and Democratic President-elect Joe Biden. Trump has refused to concede and continues, with the help of allies, to pursue challenges to Biden’s victory.
The effort hasn’t targeted Ohio, which Trump won by more than 8 percentage points.
ATLANTA, Jan 5 (Reuters) - Tight contests were developing on Tuesday in two U.S. Senate races in Georgia that will decide which party controls the chamber and with it the power to advance or block Democratic President-elect Joe Biden's policy goals.
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ATLANTA (Reuters) - Democrats won one hotly contested U.S. Senate race in Georgia on Wednesday and pulled ahead in a second, edging closer to control of the chamber and the power to advance Democratic President-elect Joe Biden’s policy goals when he takes office this month.
Democratic challenger Raphael Warnock beat Republican incumbent Kelly Loeffler, TV networks and Edison Research projected. Democrat Jon Ossoff held a narrow lead over Republican David Perdue in the other race, with a final outcome not expected until later on Wednesday.
With 98% reporting, Warnock was ahead of Loeffler by 1.2 percentage points, roughly 50,000 votes, while Ossoff led Perdue by more than 12,000 votes, according to Edison Research.
Vote counting in the two U.S. Senate races in Georgia will stop overnight and resume in the morning, and more should be known by noon on Wednesday about the results of the very close elections, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger told CNN late on Tuesday. "They're probably going to…