CLAYTON, GA — Georgians this week continued their brisk pace to the polls with nearly 4 in 10 of the state’s active voters having cast ballots in person or by mail by late afternoon Friday.

All told, over 2.6 million Georgians — or 36.2% — have cast ballots since early voting began Oct. 15, according to the secretary of state. Less than 3% of those — 160,900 — are mail-in ballots.

In addition to monitoring statewide voting, state election officials averted a midweek cyberattack bent on crashing the website that voters use to request absentee ballots.

Here’s where early voting stood at 6:30 p.m. Friday, the close of the second week of statewide early voting:

• Women continued to outpace men this week, 55.7% to 44.1%.
• Voters aged 60 to 69 cast nearly 573,732 votes, making them the largest age group participating in the election.
• Over 295 centenarians — those 100 and older — have cast ballots, including former President Jimmy Carter.
• Those between the ages of 18 and 29 accounted for almost 255,544 voters by 6:30 p.m. Friday.
• White and Black people accounted for the bulk of early voters. Over 1.5 million white people and nearly 659,00 Black people had cast ballots. 
• Voters in small counties appeared to outpace their peers in metro areas. Nearly 6 in 10 voters — 58% — in Towns County in the northwest Georgia mountains, for example, had voted by mail or in person. Neighboring Rabun County saw 52.5% turnout.
• Many of the state’s 159 counties have seen, on average, around 20% voter turnout.
• Fulton County dominated in the sheer number of voters, with over 289,211 early voters.
• Oct. 15, the first day of early voting, remains the highest voter turnout of the 10 days of early voting so far with 313,412 Georgians voting in person.

Early voting ends Friday, Nov. 1.

Keep track of early voting in Georgia here and here.

IMPORTANT DATES TO REMEMBER

• Oct. 15-Nov. 1: Early voting 
• Nov. 5: General election and deadline for mail-in (absentee) ballots to be returned
• Dec. 3: General election runoff

Have questions? Contact Tammy Joyner on X @lvjoyner or at [email protected].

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