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With Senate Primary In Limbo, Leading Georgia Democrat Blasts Top Election Official

Democrat Jon Ossoff has roughly the majority he needs to avoid a runoff, but with possibly hundreds of thousands of ballots left to count, the primary to take on GOP Sen. David Perdue is unresolved.

As votes continue to be counted across Georgia following its Tuesday primary, The Associated Press has yet to project a winner of the state's Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate.

Georgia's election law requires that a candidate receive a majority of votes to secure a primary nomination. Jon Ossoff currently stands at 50% of the vote, far ahead of the other six Democratic candidates and nearly surpassing the needed threshold to be the state's Democratic primary nominee and face Republican Sen. David Perdue in November.

"My campaign team and I are going to fight to ensure that every single vote is counted,"

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