The very best variety of early votes have been submitted in Fulton County.
Greater than 1 million individuals have voted within the battleground state of Georgia within the first 4 days of early voting, based on Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger’s workplace.
The very best quantity (136,744) of early votes have been submitted in Fulton County, which within the 2020 election turned the main focus of a number of recounts following former President Donald Trump’s claims of voter fraud.
Trump’s allegations have been partly primarily based on video exhibiting Fulton County election staff persevering with to depend ballots late into the night time after observers have been instructed to depart. State election officers, together with Raffensperger, stated that the employees have been following regular procedures and no fraud occurred.
Fulton County was included in a broader hand recount of all ballots in Georgia that passed off after the 2020 presidential election, later adopted by a machine recount on the request of the Trump marketing campaign, which confirmed the accuracy of the preliminary outcomes.
Georgia’s record-breaking early voter turnout could possibly be pushed by a number of components, together with the legacy of the contested 2020 election and a powerful emphasis on voter turnout by each events within the present election cycle.
A complete of practically 56 million mail-in ballots have been requested within the present election cycle, per the Election Lab, whose information additionally confirmed that registered Democrats have been outpacing Republicans by an element of round 1.6 when it comes to each mail-in ballots requested and submitted.
A median of 11 polls taken between Sept. 23 and Oct. 16 reveals Trump within the lead by 1.1 factors with 48.7 % to Harris’ 47.6 % in Georgia, thought-about a key battleground state within the 2024 presidential race.
In 2020, Georgia election officers licensed the race in favor of President Joe Biden over Trump by an 11,779-vote margin, a much smaller distinction than in Trump’s 2016 victory towards Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton, who misplaced the state by 211,141 votes.
Georgia can be at present the main focus of an election-related authorized battle.