More than 184,000 voters turned out for the first week of early voting, according to the Georgia Secretary of State’s Office. As of 2:30 Friday afternoon on the Election Data Hub, nearly 98,000 Democrats had voted, compared to 83,595 Republicans, and 2800 nonpartisan voters. That’s 2.5% of all voters.
Athens-Clarke County saw 1,200 residents heading to the polls this week, or about 1.7% Of those casting ballots, 873 were Democrats, 292 Republican, and 35 were non-partisan. 678 absentee ballots have been requested so far.
There are over seven million active voters in Georgia and 72,268 in Athens.
