ATLANTA, Ga. — Georgia heads into the final week of early voting with more than 1.75 million ballots already in and a parade of national political figures lined up to push their side to the polls before Nov. 3.
Through Oct. 24, the count stood at 1,751,151 ballots cast in person or returned by mail and accepted, a turnout of about 23.3% among Georgians on the active voter rolls. Compared with the same stage of the 2022 midterm, in-person early voting is up roughly 8%, but accepted mail ballots have fallen by more than half. Early voting ends Friday, Oct. 30.
Democrats bring their biggest names this week. Former President Barack Obama is scheduled to appear at an Atlanta rally Wednesday with Sen. Jon Ossoff and Keisha Lance Bottoms, the party’s nominee for governor, and former Vice President Kamala Harris is due in Georgia on Friday.
Republicans held their own show of force over the weekend. President Donald Trump rallied in Perry on Saturday with Ossoff’s Republican opponent, U.S. Rep. Mike Collins, and gubernatorial nominee Rick Jackson, the health care executive. Jackson spent the same day campaigning in Fannin and Cherokee counties with Gov. Brian Kemp, who is term-limited.
Both statewide contests look tight. Recent public polling shows the governor’s race within the margin of error, and polling averages give Ossoff the edge in the Senate race.
The geography explains the travel schedules. Fannin County gave Trump more than 82% of its vote in 2024, and Cherokee County, in Atlanta’s northern suburbs, went about 69% for him, making both key sources of Republican turnout. Kemp’s first win for governor in 2018 came by fewer than 55,000 votes out of about 3.9 million cast.
Voters can still cast an early ballot at any early voting site in their home county through Friday. Mail ballots must arrive by the time polls close on Election Day.
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