Early Voting in Swing State Georgia Brings in Half of 2020 Election Turnout, Official Says

Record early voting in battleground state Georgia has already brought out more than half of the total turnout seen in 2020, officials said.
Sterling was referring to Democrats’ criticism of 2021 voting laws that were passed in Georgia by the state Legislature and later signed into law by Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp.
In Georgia, a majority of ballots cast early in 2024 are from in-person voting rather than via mail, a practice that was more commonplace across the state and the rest of the United States amid the COVID-19 pandemic and associated rules during the 2020 election.
During the 2020 contest, then-presidential candidate Joe Biden was certified as the winner of Georgia by a slim margin over then-President Donald Trump, prompting allegations of fraud across the Peach State that led to multiple lawsuits.
Georgia is one of many states that do not report party affiliation for early voters. However, Republicans are leading Democrats in North Carolina, Arizona, and Nevada, three other battleground states, in early voting. Democrats were ahead by about 300,000 early votes in Pennsylvania as of Oct. 28, while Wisconsin and Michigan do not report party affiliation.
Both Harris and Trump have made visits to the Peach State in recent days, with the vice president appearing at a church event in the Atlanta area. There, she made a plea for the state’s black voters to go to the polls.
Trump appeared at an event in Duluth, Georgia, and told his supporters to vote on Election Day or via an early ballot.
“Just vote, whichever way you want to do it,” Trump said at the event on Oct. 24, which was organized by conservative host Charlie Kirk and the group he founded.