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

‘We are thankful for our election workers at the counties and our voters,’ said a Georgia election official.

Voters wait in line to cast their ballots during the first day of early voting in the U.S. Senate runoff, in Atlanta on Dec. 14, 2020. Jessica McGowan/Getty Images

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.

“We are approaching 590,000 early votes cast [with] 34,272 accepted absentees,” Gabriel Sterling, the office’s chief operations officer, wrote on social media platform X.