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Early voting in Georgia continues to shatter previous midterm election records

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 a million Georgia voters have cast ballots in the state’s midterm election as of Tuesday, putting Georgia on a record breaking trend with two weeks remaining before Election Day.

By the time polls close at 7 p.m. on Nov. 8, overall turnout is expected to easily surpass the 3.9 million Georgia voters who participated in the last midterm election four years ago but likely fall short of the 5 million ballots cast in the 2020 presidential election.

About 90% of voters cast ballots in person, with the remaining ten percent returning absentee ballots.