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Democrat Raphael Warnock has defeated Republican Senator Kelly Leffler in the Georgia

runoff. The race between Democrat John Ossoff and former Senator David Perdue is still too close to

call. More than 3 million people, 40 percent of the state's registered voters cast a ballot in the runoff before yesterday.

Between 800,000 and over a million people were expected to vote on election day.

Absentee ballots postmarked by Tuesday and received by Friday will be counted.

If the final margins in either contest are within 0.5% of the vote,

the losing candidate has the right under Georgia law to ask for a recount. While we wait for

results that will determine the leadership of the U.S. Senate, Congress is meeting later today

to discuss the electoral college votes, the last step in certifying the next president of the United States.

Given the unprecedented complexities of these events in American political life, I need to produce a two-part daily article.

Today, we'll survey what will take place in our nation's capital, and then close with a biblical

reflection.

Tomorrow, after we presumably have the results of today's events, we'll discuss what they

mean for our country and our future.

Under federal law, electoral college votes are counted in a joint session of Congress presided over by the President of the Senate, in this case, Vice President Mike Pence.

The process begins this afternoon at 1 p.m. Eastern Standard Time.

The Vice President opens the state's sealed certificates in alphabetical order, then hands

them to one of four tellers, a Republican and a Democrat from each chamber of Congress. They review

the certificates and announce the state's votes. The process continues uninterrupted until all the votes

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