Voting locations for the Dec. 6 runoff are now open in all 159 of the state's counties.
In the wake of the court ruling, the state's largest counties opened for Saturday early voting. Some other parts of the state, however, didn't begin early voting until Monday.With tens of thousands of voters taking advantage of the additional voting opportunities, some lines at polling places stretched for hours over the weekend.
A line of early voters stretches outside the building at the start of early voting in the runoff U.S. Senate election between Democratic Senator Raphael Warnock and his Republican challenger Herschel Walker, at the City Services Center in Columbus, Muscogee County, Georgia, on Nov. 26, 2022.
In the final days of the race, he has largely campaigned on the concept of character -- contrasting his background with that of Walker, a businessman and local football legend with a controversial past. Before Warnock walked to cast his ballot, he hosted a "Souls to the Polls" rally."This is an important election. And it's really about competence and character. That's what this is about who's ready and who's fit to serve in the United States Senate.
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