A record amount of money poured into Georgia’s Sixth Congressional District special election. WSJ’s Shelby Holliday breaks down the money spent and the cost of a ballot.

Also, from a recent article in Newsweek:

Democrat Jon Ossoff is breaking records with his fundraising ahead of Tuesday’s special election for Georgia’s 6th district congressional seat, prompting Republican attacks that he’s trying to buy the race with help from liberal donors. But the Republican Party and conservative allies are also dumping huge sums into the contest—far more than the Democrats and progressive groups—in an effort to keep the district in their column.

That investment is just one of many reasons it will be difficult for the GOP to spin a loss Tuesday night as insignificant, which is bound to be their take if Georgia’s Republican secretary of state, Karen Handel, loses to Ossoff in an upset. Yes, Ossoff’s $23 million-plus fundraising haul—almost entirely from out of state—is unprecedented for a special election. Yes, it’s just one congressional seat and special elections aren’t necessarily good bellwethers of election results more than a year down the road. But this right-of-center district was last represented by a Democrat in 1979, and Republicans clearly put a high value on extending that streak, to the tune of millions of dollars.