ATLANTA — Election officials said Wednesday that Georgia had surpassed 2 million votes cast in the early voting period, now equaling more than half the total votes cast in the 2018 election for governor.
The landmark voting threshold was crossed with two additional days beyond Wednesday for voters to cast an early in-person ballot. The early voting period ends on Friday before Election Day arrives next Tuesday, Nov. 8.
The reported vote total by state election officials at the beginning of Wednesday was 1,947,191. The overwhelming majority of those have been cast at early in-person polling precincts, with a little fewer than 200,000 cast with absentee mail-in ballots.
The Secretary of State's Office has launched a voting data hub where you can see breakdowns of the early-voting totals by race, gender, geography and more.
In 2018, a little more than 3.9 million total ballots were cast for governor.
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