Record-Setting Pace: More Than 600,000 Ballots Cast in Georgia Early Voting

The Georgia Secretary of State’s office said on Oct. 17 that residents are casting early-voting ballots in record numbers for the 2024 election, noting that more than 600,000 early and mail-in votes had been confirmed as of Oct. 16.
With 620,000 votes cast in Georgia, the state has an 8.6 voter turnout so far, Sterling said, describing those figures as “massive numbers.”
More than 44 percent are older than age 65, 41.2 percent are ages 41 to 65, 10.3 percent are ages 26 to 40, and 4.1 percent are ages 18 to 25, according to the election tracker website.
About 54 percent who have voted early are female, 44 percent are male, and another 1 percent were marked as “unknown,” the election website shows. About 58 percent are white, 28.6 percent are black, 2 percent are Hispanic, 1.8 percent are Asian, 0.4 percent are Native American, and 9.3 percent are unknown, other, or multiple.
Georgia is considered a key battleground state in the 2024 presidential election, with polls showing Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic Party’s candidate, and former President Donald Trump, the Republican candidate, in a tight race in the Peach State.
In 2020, Georgia election officials certified the race in favor of Biden over Trump by a narrow 11,779-vote margin. As it did in 2020, Georgia will provide the state’s winner with 16 electoral votes for the 2024 election.
Trump, meanwhile, was declared the winner by Georgia election officials in 2016 over Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton by 211,141 votes.