Georgia voters cast more than 300,000 ballots on Tuesday, “surpassing all records on any given day of early voting in 2022, according to Secretary of State’s Office Chief Operating Officer Gabriel Sterling and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger.”
The previous record of 136,000 ballots cast on the first day of voting was surpassed by 1 p.m. Tuesday. Voting details include that “Georgians can vote in person at a number of early voting locations in their counties from Tuesday until Nov. 1.” Metro Atlanta residents can find a map of all the early voting locations in each county here.
Reporting gives voice to one person who voted early. Theresa Renfro voted early at the County Line-Ellenwood Library, a branch of the DeKalb County Public Library. Renfro said “she won’t be here on Election Day, so she wants to make sure she has a chance to vote.”Renfro added: “Nervous about the 5th, that something might pop off, so I said I’m coming in and vote early that I know for sure that my vote will count and there’s no disruption.”
As reported, Raffensperger said during a Tuesday press conference that early voting started on time in all counties and added that absentee ballots went out on time. Raffensperger also noted that a few counties have changed their early voting locations and urged people to check their My Voter Page to make sure they are aware of times and locations.
“We have a great story to tell here in Georgia,” Raffensperger said. “Everything that we have done since 2019 is to improve the process, to build trust and to build your confidence in the election cycle.”
A few ways his office has aimed to do that, he said, was by conducting an audit of voter rolls to make sure only American citizens were registered to vote, outlawing ballot harvesting — when someone else besides the voter returns an absentee ballot — and having a watermarked paper ballot.
Raffensperger also said that Georgia has the “cleanest, most accurate voter list in the entire country” by working with other states and the Department of Driver Services to make sure voters who move out of Georgia are removed from the voter list.
