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USPS and civil rights groups reach deal to fast-track ballots in Georgia runoff elections Jacob Bogage © Lynne Sladky/AP Roughly 65 million Americans voted by mail in the Nov. 3 election. More than 1.3 million Georgians have requested mail-in ballots for the state s Jan. 5 runoff election, of which 721,000 have been returned. Civil rights groups and the U.S. Postal Service struck a deal on speedier ballot-handling procedures ahead of Georgia’s critical runoff election, avoiding a court battle at a time the mail system is getting hammered by holiday packages and staffing shortages. More than 2 million Georgians have cast their votes in the Jan. 5 race that will decide control of the U.S. Senate. Democrats Jon Ossoff and the Rev. Raphael Warnock are attempting to unseat two Republican incumbents Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler by maximizing early and absentee votes from key constituencies, especially Black voters in the Atlanta area, that have

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