Early Voting In Georgia Shatters Record At A Crucial Time
On Saturday (November 7), Georgia’s secretary of state announced that the state’s voters have broken midterm records for early voting, with more than 2.5 million in-person and absentee ballots cast as of Friday.
According to The Hill, the state saw record first-day midterm turnout when early voting began last month with nearly twice the turnout on the first day in the 2018 midterms.
On Friday alone, Georgia voters cast 231,063 ballots in-person, a total of six percent higher than the final day of early voting in the 2020 presidential election, according to a release from the office of Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger.
In total, nearly 2.3 million people have now voted in-person during the early voting period this year, and another 216,067 have voted absentee.
“Georgia voters came out in near Presidential-level numbers. County election directors handled that demand with the utmost professionalism. They navigated a whole host of challenges and executed seamlessly,” Raffensperger noted.
Nationally, more than 39 million Americans have already voted ahead of Tuesday’s midterm elections, according to data collected by the United States Elections Project.
