Record early voting in battleground state Georgia has already brought out more than half of the total turnout seen in 2020, officials said.
As of Monday morning, more than 2.8 million people had voted so far, with just eight days to go before the General Election, according to data from the University of Florida’s Election Lab website. In 2020, just under 5 million people cast ballots across the state.
“So over 50 percent of the turnout for 2020 has already voted in Georgia,” Gabriel Sterling, the Georgia secretary of state’s chief operating officer, wrote on Friday on social media. “So for people like Joe Biden & Stacey Abrams, you were wrong saying we had voter suppression here. It’s easy to register & vote in Georgia … and really hard to even try to cheat. Great job by our voters & counties..”…