UPDATE: Hours extended at two Chatham Co. voting precincts
Large turnout of Chatham Co. voters for runoff elections By Sean Evans and Bria Bolden | January 5, 2021 at 4:53 PM EST - Updated January 5 at 11:34 PM
SAVANNAH, Ga. (WTOC) - (6:20 p.m. UPDATE): Hours have been extended at two Chatham County voting precincts.
Voting hours have been extended at Beach High until 7:35 p.m. and the Old Courthouse until 7:33 p.m.
Savannah Mayor Van Johnson and other members of the Democratic Party of Georgia asked for the extension from a judge due to technical issues and possible misinformation.
The last person to vote at Beach High said if the time hadn’t been extended, he would not have been able to vote.
Warnock Declares Victory in Georgia Senate Runoff Race, Second Race Undetermined
Democrat Raphael Warnock has declared victory in a Georgia Senate runoff race challenging Georgia Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-Ga.), which was later called in his favor by The Associated Press. Loeffler, though, said there’s still a “path to victory.”
Results in the second Senate runoff in the state between Republican candidate David Perdue and Democratic candidate Jon Ossoff are undetermined.
As of 2:20 a.m. local time, with 98 percent of precincts reporting, Warnock was ahead by more than 46,500 votes over Loeffler, or 50.4 percent to 49.6 percent. Loeffler has yet to concede the race as of early Wednesday.
Savannah Morning News
UPDATE (1:22 p.m., Wed.): On Wednesday afternoon, the Chatham County Board of Elections announced that 33,000 of the 34,576 absentee ballots had been processed. The count was as of 1 p.m.
They added that a delivery of 4,000 ballots were expected this afternoon and they expect to complete all remaining ballots by the end of Wednesday.
Once updated, these results will include all Election Day in-poll ballots, all Advanced Voting in-poll ballots, and all Absentee-By-Mail ballots received to date, the elections board said in a statement.
Earlier story:
Chatham County s election results in Tuesday s U.S. Senate runoffs looked familiar.
Georgia election: Trump voter fraud claims and others fact-checked
By Reality Check team and BBC Monitoring
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US President Donald Trump and others have made new unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud following the rerun of two crucial Senate races in the state of Georgia.
With the Democrats looking likely to win both seats and with them control of the US Senate, we ve debunked some of the theories that have been widely shared on social media.
Claim: Dominion voting machines stopped working in Republican areas
Referring to the vote in Georgia, Mr Trump said these machines had stopped working in Republican strongholds for over an hour .