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PHOTOS: Live from the runoff at Park Tavern in Midtown Atlanta

By John Spink
Dec 6, 2022

Voting got off to a brisk start at Park Tavern in Atlanta’s Piedmont Park in Midtown. Here are photos from the scene:

Poll workers get ready at Park Tavern for Georgia's U.S. Senate runoff election on Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2022.

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Lines formed in the rain before doors opened, but voters quickly moved into polling places to cast their ballots.

Voters lined up in the rain at Park Tavern in Atlanta before polls opened Tuesday.

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The Park Tavern polling place was decorated for the holidays before the last day of voting in the runoff, which will end this year’s election cycle. The general election was four weeks ago, but neither Democratic U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock nor Republican Herschel Walker won a majority.

Voters lined up to cast their ballots at Park Tavern in Atlanta on Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2022.

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