Greater than 353,000 voters shattered Georgia’s single-day early voting file Friday within the US Senate contest between incumbent Democrat Raphael Warnock and Republican Herschel Walker.
The tally got here on the last day of early voting within the run-off race, which now heads to Tuesday’s election day.
“As of 9:45, with some counties catching up on their information enter, the early vote totals climbed to 353,440 for as we speak,” Gabriel Sterling, the chief working officer of Georgia’s secretary of state’s workplace and one of many prime election officers, introduced.
“Our totals are over 1.8 million with just a few days of absentees to reach. That may seemingly put us over 1.9 million by Election Day.”
The Peach State has seen a slew of record-breaking voter turnout since early voting started final weekend. Friday’s numbers exceeded the earlier early-voting excessive simply set Monday, when greater than a quarter-million ballots have been solid.
Earlier than Friday, the file for probably the most single-day early votes recorded got here on the final day of early voting within the 2018 midterm elections, with just a little greater than 233,000 votes solid, Sterling tweeted.
A latest CNN ballot discovered that Warnock held a slim, four-point lead over Walker with 52% of seemingly voters saying they’d again the incumbent versus the previous College of Georgia soccer star.
Warnock eked forward of Walker in November’s midterm elections by roughly 37,675 votes, however fell in need of the 50 % mark wanted to keep away from a runoff.
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