Georgia voters took to the polls in report numbers Tuesday, casting greater than 300,000 ballots on the primary day of early voting, in line with officers.
Gabe Sterling, the chief working officer in Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger’s (R) workplace shared in a submit on social platform X that the Peach State had shattered its report.
“With the record-breaking 1st day of early voting and accepted absentees we have had over 328,000 total votes cast so far,” Sterling wrote, noting that the earlier report was set in 2020 when 136,000 individuals opted to vote early.
“Over 300,000 votes cast today,” Sterling wrote in a separate submit. “That’s 123% higher than the old record for the 1st day. Great job counties & voters.”
In 2020, President Biden received the Peach State over former President Trump by a razor-thin margin.
Vice President Harris and Trump are at present locked in a decent race in Georgia, thought-about a battleground within the present election cycle, with the previous president main Harris 48.3 p.c to 47 p.c, in line with The Hill/Resolution Desk HQ’s polling mixture.
Raffensperger had predicted the report turn-out early Tuesday, noting that the state had labored “overtime” to make sure early voting might start and absentee ballots could be delivered as deliberate.
His feedback got here as Georgia and North Carolina had been nonetheless in restoration from Hurricane Helene, which left devastation all through the swing states, threatening to disrupt the voting course of.
“When you think back to where we were two and a half weeks ago, this is a cause for celebration. So many people said, ‘What’s going to happen? There’s no way you’ll have elections starting in Georgia on time,’” Raffensberger stated throughout a press convention, including that early voting began on time in all 159 counties within the state.
A decide within the state additionally dominated late Tuesday {that a} rule requiring a hand depend of ballots on election evening won’t take impact earlier than November’s contest.
