Georgia early voting smashing records entering final week

Early voting has become the option of choice for many Georgia voters.

As of 12:30 p.m. Monday, more than 2.7 million voters in the Peach State had cast their ballots during the two-week early voting period. Combined with 177,192 absentee ballots, more than 40% of active voters in Georgia had already voted.

That Day 15 early voting total shattered the previous record of nearly 2 million for the same day in the 2018 early voting period. Nearly 1.98 million had voted early by Day 15 in 2020, and more than 1.6 million had cast ballots early by the same day in 2022.

“Georgia voters know we've made it easy to cast a ballot. It’s really that simple,” Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said Monday.