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Stacey Abrams Files Suit To Force Georgia Gubernatorial Election Into A Runoff

Emily Zanotti

Georgia’s Democratic gubernatorial candidate, Stacey Abrams, filed suit in a federal court Sunday, seeking to stop Georgia’s election officials from tossing out more than a thousand absentee and provisional ballots — a move that she hopes could send the state’s gubernatorial election into a runoff.

CNN reports that Abrams’ team is convinced that they’re just a few thousand votes away from forcing a runoff, even though they currently run 59,000 votes behind the Republican candidate, Brian Kemp, and 100% of precincts have reported in.

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