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Early voting continues at record pace in Georgia

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.

Early voting in Georgia for the midterm election continues to break records, with just under 400,000 voters having cast ballots through Thursday morning.

Georgia has seen record turnout since the first day of early voting this year, surging to nearly twice the number seen on the first day of early voting in 2018. Thursday’s total continues to surpass the previous midterm early voting records made in the 2018 midterm election, and the cumulative total is only 15,000 votes under the Presidential election cumulative total at this point in 2020.

When combined with absentee ballots received, 435,000 Georgia voters have cast their ballot through Thursday morning.

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.
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