this is "nightline." >> tonight, high stakes. >> are you ready to stand up for one georgia? >> i'm going to fight for the people, and that's who i need to fight for, not for washington, d.c. >> the final race of the midterms. the contentious senate battle between raphael warnock and herschel walker. what's at stake for both sides in d.c. >> our voices are the voices of the future. >> the young voters making a difference. >> tell everybody you know to vote. >> why the ants marching singer dave matthews is getting involved. ♪ >> so doing this kind of thing, do you think you've lost any fans? >> sure. >> do you care? >> no. plus low-balled.

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with qualifying internet. thanks for joining us. all eyes on georgia's senate runoff, just hours away. voters heading to the polls in record numbers as raphael warnock and herschel walker make their closing arguments in the final race of the midterms. why both republicans and democrats consider this seat so important. here is my "nightline" co-anchor byron pitts. >> tell everybody you know to vote for senator warnock, unless -- and tell them not to vote if they're not going to. >> reporter: in the final push to the finish line of the midterm elections, democrats hoping to crush the competition with star power from dave

matthews. ♪ crazy how you make it all all right, love ♪ >> reporter: former president barack obama. >> you deserve a senator you can be proud of. >> reporter: republicans also ut all contentious and critical contest for the u.s. senate in georgia. >> i got a simple message. help is on the way for georgia. >> herschel walker is winning this race. >> reporter: former football star herschel walker trying to unseat incumbent democratic senator reverend raphael warnock. >> i'm running for reelection not because i'm in love with politics but because i'm in love with change. >> i'm going to fight for the people. and that's who i need to fight for, not for washington, d.c. >> reporter: the two facing off for the second time in a month after neither man cleared the 50% threshold in the general, triggering this runoff. democrats will hold the u.s. senate regardless of tomorrow's outcome, securing 50 seats in the general election last month, but pushing that razor-thin

margin either direction in georgia could have significant ramifications for whole country. >> if the democrats get that extra seat, it means that joe manchin and kyrsten sinema can't both be the vote. potentially they can get things down without a unanimous democratic party. >> reporter: any group has the potential to affect the outcome. >> it's so important that we remembered that our voices are the voices of the future. >> reporter: gen z coming out in droves in this year's general. the second highest turnout for the 18 to 29-year-old age group in three decades. helping deliver wins for democrats in key senate races, including mark kelly in arizona and catherine cortez masto in nevada. >> there is a way that young people felt that had some stake in this gym of this election cycle. they all but canceled out the votes of their grandparent, of senior citizens who were some of the most reliable voters out there and also some of the most republican voters out there. >> young people are

enthusiastic. >> reporter: alex ames is a senior at georgia tech and an organizer with the georgia youth justice coalition, a group that helped get polling sites on campus. >> in georgia we saw voter turnout that was higher than the national average of 12% youth electorate. >> reporter:s they organized to give pizza and ice cream after casting their ballots, all to help drive enthusiasm. and there has been no shortage of enthusiasm, accusations, and tv arizona in this race. >> i was born in this state. raised in this state. >> reporter: warnock, one of 12 children in his family, grew up in a housing project in savannah. today along with his current job? washington, he is the long-time senior pastor at historic ebenezer baptist church in atlanta, epicenter of the civil rights movement and home to martin luther king jr. >> whatever you need, god will provide. >> reporter: walker found fame on the football field, launching his capitol hill political career just a year ago. >> i'm a kid from a small town

in georgia who's lived the american dream. and i'm ready to fight to keep that dream alive for you too. >> reporter: handpicked by former president donald trump, despite reservations by state party leaders. >> i want to be a leader like him when i get to that senate seat to show everyone i love america. >> reporter: it has been a show with stumbling blocks. walker's staunch and vocal anti-abortion rights views challenged by women who claimed walker encouraged and even paid for their abortion after becoming pregnant during an affair with him. when "nightline" co-anchor juju chang spoke with one woman who asked us to call her jane doe. >> he was very clear that he did not want me to have the child. >> reporter: walker has denied all allegations. as for the runoffs, the candidates' styles as different as their resumes. >> the warnock campaign has started to really invest more resources into reaching independents. walker has kind of just had this sprint to the finish line type

of campaign. >> reporter: laila ipsa has been chasing the campaign all fall who works in the show "power trip" on hulu. >> is it fair to say in some ways warnock is running to be senator of georgia and herschel walker is running to be a republican in the senate? >> absolutely. and you know that because warnock all the time says "i represent all of georgia." this is not a partisan issue. the differences between me and my opponent are too wide." walker talks about make america great again. >> reporter: but all georgia voters facing some challenges after the republican-controlled state legislature enacted new laws after the 2020 election. runoff cycles were shortened from nine to four weeks long. there were fewer mail-in drop boxes. and the time to request a ballot was reduced. >> this is happening a full month earlier, which a lot of

people thought would benefit republicans, because it gives republicans less of an opportunity to flex their early voting muscle. but it may have had the opposite effect, because it motive in order democrats than ever to vote early. >> reporter: the results, hours' long waits to vote in the runoff. >> we know the voting habits you establish as a young person stay with you a lifetime. if you start and your first experience voting is like mine, waiting in an hour-long line, uyou're going have a rough experience and you're not going to come back. we need to make sure it's as easy as possible. these laws don't reflect that. >> reporter: not every student can vote on campus. mccray says she journeyed to her home polling location where she is registered reflects another barrier young people can face. >> it's going to be about two hours there and back. but the naacp and some other organizations, they have ways that you can get lyfts and uber discounts so you can get a ride to the polls to help.

>> reporter: in this year's midterms, young people chose democratic candidates by a 28-point margin. >> the reason they're trying to disenfranchise us is because they know when we band together, we create ripples of change. >> democrats leaning into that youth vote. >> dave matthews now! >> reporter: and also bringing in another big name they've relied on this fall, musician dave matthews who played a fundraiser for several senate candidates, including john fetterman of pennsylvania. last week in atlanta -- >> it's a great day, matthews! >> reporter: matthews sharing the stage with warnock. >> georgia is going to get it done again. >> indeed. tell your little brothers and sisters to get out there too. >> reporter: then strumming one of his most famous songs, "satellite" ♪ look up, look down, all around, satellite ♪ you're an incredibly busy dude. why make time for this kind of thing. >> no party is perfect by any

means, but a proud liberal lefty, progressive. all the words they're trying to make into curse words, i'm all of them. and i believe it with all my heart, that we can measure the greatness of a country that what the people who have the least power are afforded. and that's what matters. >> reporter: the 55-year-old singer and his namesake band got their start playing college bars and parties in the southeast and parties in the 1990s. his anthem "ants marching" a hit ♪ democrats hoping to inspire his predominantly why suburban gen x fan base. >> i only assume about half of my fan base are republicans. but i'm not afraid of making those people mad. >> reporter: so doing this kind of thing, do you think you've lost any fans? >> sure. >> reporter: do you care? no. no, i don't care. if someone wants to vote for walker and then still likes my music, that's fine. but if the fact that i don't

think he is fit to lead, and that makes them think that they don't want to listen to my music, i don't -- i'm fine. >> reporter: 1.8 million georgians voted early, a new record in this state. and now it comes down to these two men and one final day. georgia has become very good at reporting the results quickly. and unless it's a very close race, my expectation is we find out who the next senator for the next six years from georgia is going to be on election night itself. >> our thanks to byron. and stay with abc news for election night coverage. up next, alleged racism in housing. families of color getting low-balled on home appraisals. my active psoriatic arthritis can slow me down. now, skyrizi helps me get going by treatg skndoints. along with significantly clearer skin,

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and now to a stunning nearly two-year investigation by abc news stations across the country of allegations of racism in home appraisals, and how president biden's housing secretary says she fell victim to the practice. why some homeowners are using whitewashing to remedy the problem. here is abc's janai norman. >> the property was never the question. it was who was occupying the property at the time of the appraisal. that was the question. >> he actually appraised my house for lower than i purchased before, over $20,000 lower. >> reporter: many minority

homeowners claim racial bias is holding them back in the real estate market. >> the only thing bringing down the value of my home was me. >> reporter: with allegations of appraisers low-balling the value of their homes. >> there was so much on the line. if the house didn't appraise for a certain amount of money, then we wouldn't be able to move forward. >> reporter: tenicia tate austin and husband paul are just two of the homeowners profiled in the abc news documentary "our america lowballed." executive producer and abc bay area reporter julian glover spent almost two years investigating alleged home appraisal bias. >> what we found after looking at more than 50 million refinance applications for home loan mortgages is in predominantly black neighborhoods, they're almost five times more likely to be lowballed and underappraised in an appraisal than in predominantly white communities. >> reporter: the austins own their home in marin city, a diverse and historically black

neighborhood north of san francisco. in 2020, the couple hoped to take advantage of low mortgage rates and refinance. their home was appraised by a white woman. >> i was the one that was here at the house. i felt like we had a good rapport. >> reporter: the appraiser valued their home at just under a million dollars, far less than what they'd expected. >> it was devastating. this is not okay. i know that the house is worth more than this. >> reporter: the austin are not alone. a new study found homes in white neighborhoods appraised at twice the value of homes and communities of color on average, for $371,000 more. housing in urban development secretary marcia fudge said those lower values create a chain reaction. >> i live in a black community. a community that i very much like. but when my house is not valued properly, my schools don't get the kind of tax dollars they should receive. our city doesn't get the tax

dollars they should receive. so we don't have the estimate level of police or fire. >> reporter: after the austins' petition to get a second appraisal, they asked her white friend jan mcdougal to stand in as tenicia and put away personal items, a strategy known as whitewashing. >> whitewashing is the idea of removing yourself from your home, taking down your family pictures, your artwork, your hair products, your clothing, your shoes. anything that could lead to one saying i think this person might be black. i think this person might be latino. >> the suspicion was clearly that the house was being devalued because of the homeowners' race. so i understood that i was standing in to be a white homeowner to see if that had any impact on the appraisal value. and so the house had to look like it was actually my house. >> reporter: with jan as tenicia, their home was reappraised for nearly half a

million dollars more. the austins still feeling the pain of having to whitewash their home. >> it's humiliating. it's hurtful. it's one of those things that i don't wish on anybody, right? because it makes you feel less than. >> reporter: the problem so pervasive, it was parodied on a recent episode of "inside amy schumer". >> that's the real estate agent. take this. spray your face, spray your neck, spray your arms. >> in that order? >> just do it, reggie. >> hi, hi! >> welcome. thank you for coming. come on in. >> compounding the issue, a severe lack of diversity in the homeowner appraisal industry. the profession more than 97% white and male dominated. as a young latino woman, dominique curtis is a rarity in the field. >> you're starting to see more women appraisers. but it's still not a lot of us.

i'm in the appraisal industry, but i don't feel like i fit. >> reporter: the austins even taking their story to capitol hill. last march, they were on hand as the biden administration's property appraisal valuation equity task force, or p.a.v.e. rolled out recommendations to address appraisal discrimination. >> i'm grateful to vice president harris for standing with me and with other victims of appraisal bias and committing to take on this issue. >> reporter: hud secretary fudge not only led the task force trying to resolve housing bias, but says she is affected by it personally. >> i live literally two doors from a community that is all white, or primarily white. two doors. my house is bigger than the house two doors from me. my lot is big they're tonight house two doors from me. my home is valued at $25,000 less than the home two doors from me. it is obvious why. >> reporter: the austins are

suing their original appraiser, claiming racism led to her lowballing the value of their home. abc news reached out to the appraiser for comment, but we haven't heard back. many the meantime, the austins say they plan to stay put. >> we feel like this is our forever home. >> we love the folks that surround us, and, you know, we just want to continue to be here and just be. >> i think there is a lot more work to be done to make sure that all americans, no matter what they look like, who they are, the color of their skin can truly live out the american dream. but when you aren't having your home valued for what it should be, you're essentially being cheated out of the american dream. >> our thanks to janai. our "america: lowballed" is streaming on hulu and at.abc. coming up, remembering kirstie alley, the emmy winner. as you'd like...t as cln

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and finally tonight, celebrating the life and legacy of emmy-winning actress kirstie alley.

>> abooa. >> and to you. if you excuse me. >> most of america will forever remember her as rebecca howe of "cheers." >> i mean, wayne. >> she also starred in movies, including "look who's talking" and two sequels with john travolta. alley's two children announcing her death tonight saying she died after a short battle with cancer, only recently discovered. they wrote as akonic as she was on screen, she was an even more amazing mother and grandmother. kirstie alley was 71. last week i stepped in a bear trap. i should really get rid of it. but... i'll make do.