Democrats cast close to a million votes in the Senate primary, more than triple the number in the 2016 primary.
Despite massive problems at the voting booth, Democratic turnout in Georgia's primaries skyrocketed — with three times as many votes cast in the Senate primary as in 2016.
"This was extraordinarily high turnout for a primary — way beyond what we've seen in previous primary elections," Alan Abramowitz, a political science professor at Atlanta's Emory University, told NBC News. Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, a Republican, said he was launching an investigation into the"unacceptable" problems, which he blamed on local election officials in mostly minority counties.
Story continuesAbramowitz credited the rise in the overall statewide votes to Raffensperger, saying his decision to mail every registered active voter an application for an absentee ballot and encourage Georgians to vote by mail because of the pandemic resulted in the surge in turnout, especially among Democrats. The state also had early voting.
Turnout for Republicans appeared to be not as strong in the primary, but there were no statewide contested races. Incumbent Sen. David Perdue, who ran unopposed, had received about 457,000 votes as of Friday, but the secretary of state's office reported Saturday that total was up to over 924,000 with 100 percent of precincts reporting.
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