Atlanta: Voting started in the US state of Georgia on Tuesday in two run-off elections that will determine whether the Republicans or the Democrats will control the US Senate.
Republicans are banking on strong voter turnout to re-elect Senators Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue and hold control of the chamber, while Democrats have put their hopes on Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock.
Read: Trump warns of Georgia Senate runoffs' high stakes
The stakes have drawn hundreds of millions of dollars in campaign spending to a once solidly Republican state that now finds itself as the nation’s premier battleground.
President-elect Joe Biden won Georgia’s crucial 16 electoral votes by about 12,000 votes out of five million cast in November.
President Donald Trump, however, is continuing to push false assertions of widespread fraud that even his now-former attorney general and Georgia’s Republican secretary of state - along with a litany of state and federal judges - have said did not happen.
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