About 800,000 people have voted so far in the Georgia Senate runoff. Tuesday’s turnout was the most ever on a single day of early voting — breaking a record set just the day before.
Those big daily numbers though aren’t only a sign of voters’ enthusiasm.
Georgia’s new voting law condensed the runoff to four weeks. The law left a short window to return an absentee ballot and fewer days for early voting than during the nine-week runoff in 2021. So more people are lining up to vote early, in-person at once, especially in metro Atlanta, where wait times have been an hour or more at some early voting locations.
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