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That s markedly high turnout for a runoff election, which usually sees much lower participation than a general election.
More than 79,000 people who did not vote in this November s general election have cast a ballot in the runoffs.
The runoffs already set an early voting record when 168,000 Georgians went to the polls the day they opened and another 314,000 cast absentee ballots that day. More than 1.1 million people voted either in person or by mail during the first week after early voting opened.
If Warnock and Ossoff win both races, then each party would hold 50 seats in the Senate, with Vice President-elect Kamala Harris
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Trump is under pressure from some corners to extend the order into 2021, which would put pressure on the incoming Biden administration over whether to quickly rescind it. The president s advisers are said to be split over whether Trump should act, according to sources familiar with discussions.
Trump in June signed an executive order suspending the issuance of H-1B visas, H-2B visas, H-4 visas, L-1 visas and certain J-1 visas. The moratorium on new visas is in place through Dec. 31, meaning Trump has until Thursday to extend it or let it lapse.
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Proponents of extending the visa suspensions argue the pandemic is ongoing, and some on Trump s team believe it would create a potential political headache for President-elect Joe Biden
By Dominick Mastrangelo - 12/29/20 07:38 AM EST
A judge in Georgia ruled on Monday that two of the state s counties cannot invalidate voting registrations based on unverified change of address data.
“Defendants are enjoined from removing any challenged voters in Ben Hill and Muscogee Counties from the registration lists on the basis of National Change of Address data,” U.S. District Judge Leslie Abrams Gardner wrote in an order, according to Reuters.
Abrams Gardner is the sister of former Democratic candidate for governor and voting rights activist Stacey Abrams.
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The two counties had sought to purge thousands of voters from the rolls based on what local election officials called unreliable change of address data. The vast majority of them included 4,000 in Muscogee County, which President-elect Joe Biden
By Niv Elis - 12/29/20 09:54 AM EST
Unemployment benefits included in a new COVID-19 relief package will not lapse this week, as anticipated, despite President Trump As states are implementing these new provisions as quickly as possible, the Department does not anticipate that eligible claimants will miss a week of benefits due to the timing of the law’s enactment, a department spokesman told The Hill.
Two key emergency unemployment programs, Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) and Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation (PEUC), expired on Saturday, a day before Trump signed a $900 billion COVID-19 relief bill into law.
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Trump delayed signing the bill, which passed in Congress on Dec. 21, complaining that $600 stimulus checks were not large enough.
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