Play Live Radio
Next Up:
0:00
0:00
0:00 0:00
Available On Air Stations

First day of early voting in Georgia sets midterm record

A line of voters stretched outside the Clarke County Elections Office on the first day of early voting, October 22, 2022.
Julianne Akers/WUGA
A line of voters stretched outside the Clarke County Elections Office on the first day of early voting, October 22, 2022.

More than 131,000 Georgians turned out on Monday for the first day of early voting ahead of this year’s midterm elections. That’s 85% higher than the number who showed up to vote on the first day of early voting before the last midterm elections four years ago and fell just short of the 136,739 who cast ballots as early voting kicked off ahead of the 2020 presidential election.

The huge turnout wasn’t surprising considering Republican Gov. Brian Kemp and Democratic U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock are on the ballot, along with Georgia’s congressional delegation and all of Georgia's state level offices, as well as all 236 seats in the General Assembly.

There will be at least 17 days of early voting throughout the state. All 159 counties will have an early voting Saturday this weekend. The final day of early voting will be Nov 4, the last Friday before Election Day Nov. 8. To find early voting locations and hours in your county, visit the secretary of state’s My Voter Page.

Jeff has delivered morning news at WUGA Radio for more than a decade. He was among a team at CNN that won a George Foster Peabody Award in 1991 for an educational product based on the fall of the Soviet Union. He also won an Edward R. Murrow Award from Radio Television Digital News Association in 2007 for producing a series for WSB Radio on financial scams. Jeff is a graduate of the Babcock Graduate School of Management at Wake Forest University (MBA) and holds a BS in Business Administration from Campbell University, both in North Carolina.
Related Content