{"id":107530,"date":"2024-10-17T00:03:48","date_gmt":"2024-10-17T00:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/georgia-sees-2nd-day-of-record-early-voting-turnout\/"},"modified":"2024-10-17T00:03:48","modified_gmt":"2024-10-17T00:03:48","slug":"georgia-sees-2nd-day-of-record-early-voting-turnout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/georgia-sees-2nd-day-of-record-early-voting-turnout\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgia sees 2nd day of record early voting turnout"},"content":{"rendered":"
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(GEORGIA) — 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.<\/p>\n

“So, with the rest of today and absentees we could get close to 600,000 votes cast in Georgia. We continue on the record-setting pace and we are thankful for our election workers at the counties and our voters,” he said.<\/p>\n

On the previous day, 312,206 people cast an early vote, shattering the 136,000 votes cast in the first day of early voting in 2002, according to state election data.<\/p>\n

Sterling said earlier in the day that the 500,000 votes cast mark represented 10% of the turnout in the 2020 election.<\/p>\n

As of Wednesday night, 33,359 absentee ballots have been returned and 33,150 of those ballots were accepted, according to the secretary of state’s office.<\/p>\n

Georgia is seen as a crucial swing state for the presidential race, with both former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris have been actively campaigning throughout neighborhoods in the state.<\/p>\n

Voting rights advocates have been pushing voters to choose the early voting option due to concerns about new rules including one that makes it harder to cast a provisional ballot on Election Day if a voter is sent to the wrong polling place. Georgia voters can choose any early voting election site in their county, according to state law.<\/p>\n

Early voting in Georgia will continue until Nov. 1.<\/p>\n

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