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The die is cast. Georgia closed this Tuesday at 7 p.m. ET ) the ballot boxes that will decide which party takes control of the Senate for the next two years. Some polling places remained open for a longer time by court order, as reported by Associated Press .
In these second round elections the Republican senator David Perdue , whose term in the Senate ended on Sunday, against Democrat Jon Ossoff and Senator Kelly Loeffler , a Republican appointed about a year ago, against Democrat Raphael Warnock .
Despite the fact that most of the polling places closed at the scheduled time, some they stayed open for more minutes. One of them, in Tift County closed its doors at 7: 40. Two in Chatham County were open until after 7: 30. And a few more in Columbia and Gwinnett counties welcomed voters until minutes after 7 p.m.
If the Republicans win one of the two seats at stake , they will maintain control in the Senate and the leader Mitch McConnell could block many of the measures promoted by the now president-elect Joe Biden. Democrats, on the other hand, need to win both seats to gain Control of the Upper House.
Election day in Georgia is held one day before a joint session in which the Congress will certify the electoral college vote and will consolidate the victory of Joe Biden . The outgoing president, Donald Trump , is pressuring his vice president, Mike Pence, to intervene in the count in his role as chair of the session. Pence would have told Trump that he does not have the power to reverse the electoral result, as published by The New York Times .