After two days of early voting in Georgia, half a million people had already cast their ballots, according to data from the state’s election office.
At the close of the day Wednesday, 269,696 votes had been cast at early voting, according to the office of the Georgia Secretary of State. In total more than 581,000 in-person early votes had been cast, according to the data.
Gabriel Sterling, the Chief Operations Officer of Georgia’s office of Secretary of State, noted in a statement on X that early votes cast Wednesday set a record for a second day.
“We are approaching 590,000 early votes cast. 34,272 accepted absentees. We are at nearly 620,000 total votes cast. So we are already at 8.6% turnout. Again…massive numbers,” he said in another X post …