Georgia’s secretary of state announced Tuesday afternoon that the runoff elections have been officially certified, clearing the way for Sens.-Elect Jon Ossoff (D-GA) and Raphael Warnock (D-GA) to be sworn in on Wednesday.
One of the Gwinnett County Republican Party’s two representatives on the bipartisan county elections board told fellow members of the GOP that she favors major elections changes at the local and state levels, including a move away from no excuse absentee voting for many Georgians.
Alice O’Lenick, who is the Gwinnett Board of Registrations and Elections chairwoman for 2021 and 2022, encouraged members of her party to write letters and make phone calls to state legislators to encourage them to make changes to state elections laws.
“They don’t have to change all of them [laws], but they’ve got to change the major parts of them so that we at least have a shot at winning.”
In 2001 the tiebreaker was Cheney (unless you count 17 days of Gore still being Vice President and Senate President). I would say that power-sharing was the best Democrats could conceivably achieve at the time. Of course, there should be no power sharing this time around.