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Hannah Fingerhut | Associated Press

Splitting pairs: Doubts about candidates prompted more split-ticket voting in midterms, tipping scales in tight races

Campaign signs are seen the day before the midterm elections on Nov. 7 in Atlanta. (Elijah Nouvelage/Getty Images)

ATLANTA — Casting his vote this month in one of the most politically competitive states in the U.S., Seung Lee happily backed Georgia Republican Gov. Brian Kemp’s reelection. But when it came to the other top Republican on the ballot, Senate candidate Herschel Walker, he was uneasy.

Walker “doesn’t know what he’s talking about,” said Lee, a software tester in the Atlanta suburb of Decatur who ultimately backed Democratic incumbent Sen. Raphael Warnock.

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