“And that made me sit up and stop eating my eggs.”A few days before we spoke, the Georgia secretary of state’s office had once again begun investigating the New Georgia Project for election-law violations. “Here’s something that came into our house yesterday,” he said, holding up three New Georgia postcard mailers. About a third of early and absentee voters whose races were known were Black, compared with 27 percent in the general election. That number is slightly higher than the number of Black people who voted early in the general election. Older voters who lean conservative made up about 37 percent of the early runoff voters, according to Georgiavotes, a voting data website.

Source: New York Times December 29, 2020 09:56 UTC