Since the November elections, more than 67,000 new voters registered in Georgia before the December 7th deadline to be eligible to vote in the upcoming runoff elections, NBC News reports.

The plurality of the new registrants, 44%, registered as Democrats while 41% filed as Republicans.  Fifteen percent identified as independents, with the remainder filing under minor parties.

New voters, who are likely highly motivated to vote in the January 5th runoffs, could swing the two races, which polls show within a single percentage point.  The stakes of the races are the control of the US Senate:  if Democrats Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock both win, the Senate will be a 50-50 tie, with Vice President Kamala Harris casting the deciding vote after her January 20th inauguration. 

With the races expected to be razor thin, incumbent Republican Georgia Senators Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue will likely not be part of the Senate when it votes to on the Electoral College ballots January 6th, because of recounts and questions about the integrity of the election.

While lame duck president Donald Trump has pushed for the Republicans, many of his followers have expressed doubts about the security of the election.  Lawyers Sidney Powell and L. Lin Wood have pushed Trump supporters to either boycott the election or vote against Loeffler and Perdue, which could be enough to swing both races to an energized Democratic electorate.