As of Friday afternoon, the number of ballots cast before Election Day in Georgia had topped the two million mark while in Hall County the number for two weeks of early voting had moved past the 50,000.
Statewide, according to the Georgia News Network and the AJC, more than 2.5 million ballots had been cast, with another week left in the early voting period. The Hall County Elections Office reports that as of 10:00 Friday morning, 50,081 votes, in-person and absentee, had been cast. That’s 35.78 percent of the county’s registered voters.
This year’s turnout in Georgia has for the most part been boosted by early in-person voters rather than mail-in ballots, which dominated the 2020 election. This year’s massive turnout for early voting also continues a trend away from casting ballots on Election Day, which this year is Nov.5.