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Early voting enters final two days in Georgia with turnout among active voters nearly at 50%

Here's the latest data provided by the state.

ATLANTA — There are two days left in what's been a record-setting early voting period in Georgia.

In those two days, it's likely the Peach State will see its turnout among active voters reach the halfway point.

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As of the start of Thursday, October 31, the state election data hub shows that total turnout is just shy of 3.5 million voters -- or 48.2% of the state's more than 7.2 million registered voters considered "active" (if you've voted or otherwise been in contact with the election system in the last five years).

Just roughly 131,000 more votes will get Georgia to 50% before Election Day -- and usually the final days of the early voting see another surge as voters scramble to get to the polls so they aren't left with no choice but to get out on Election Day.

In the meantime, it will be important for voters who have used absentee ballots to make sure their votes count. Georgia election official Gabriel Sterling, in an update from the Secretary of State's Office on Wednesday, noted that you can make sure your ballot processed by logging into the My Voter Page.

If you mailed it and it never arrived, your MVP page would let you know that. You can still at that point go vote in person and have your absentee ballot canceled.

There are also cases where absentee votes may not yet be processed due to varying kinds of errors - say you didn't sign your ballot, for example. At that point you are allowed to go to your local elections office and "cure" your ballot -- basically, fix whatever mistake may exist and have your vote counted. 

As of Thursday morning, the sate data hub lists almost 215,000 absentee ballots returned of the more than 342,000 that were issued. That means more than 127,000 absentee votes potentially still outstanding.

If you received an absentee ballot, do note that it's too late to get it into the mail and be sure it will arrive on time. At this point, anyone with an absentee ballot planning to cast it -- and, again, your other option is to just go to a polling site, cancel your absentee ballot, and vote in person -- is urged to do so at a drop box.

You have to check your local county elections site for drop box locations.

Ballots that get put in the mail at this point will likely not arrive by the close of polls on Election Day, which is the deadline for them to be received (there is no front-end deadline for when to send in Georgia, but the back-end deadline for when it has to get there by means you would have needed to already mail your ballot in to be sure it would get there on time.)

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