ATLANTA — Voters will continue to cast their ballots early for the fourth day straight day and elections officials confirm Thursday evening that Georgians have cast over 1 million ballots.
Channel 2′s Justin Gray has been following all of the early voting updates and he’s learned that as of 5 p.m., 1,051,957 Georgians have voted so far in the 2020 election.
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As of 5pm: 1,051,957 Georgians have now voted.
— Justin Gray (@JustinGrayWSB) October 15, 2020
541,397 - absentee ballots returned in-person early-voting today as of 5pm: 137,011 - that’s more than the record setting number on day 1
Top 5 counties with highest turnout as of 8:30 a.m. Thursday:
- Fulton: 108,261
- DeKalb: 89,458
- Cobb: 84,526
- Gwinnett: 46,567
- Forsyth: 25,770
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With the increased turn out for early voting, many metro Atlanta counties are adding more location and voting machines to help cut down on long lines.
[Secretary of State’s Office working on voter check-in delays as long lines continue for early voting]
In Douglas County, leaders said the long lines and the wait time to vote at the courthouse earlier this week broke record numbers and that forced them to open the new polling sites: Deer Lick Park and the Boundary Waters Aquatic Center.
Other counties are also adding more voting machines to help with those long lines.
At Gwinnett’s election headquarters in Lawrenceville, officials added five voting machines and two check-in stations.
In Cobb County, more voting machines are coming and the county is expanding with two more locations planned next week.
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