Georgians seem to be embracing the state’s political battleground status as they’ve been showing up at early voting locations this week in unexpected record numbers.
“It’s gone past our initial expectation,” said Gabriel Sterling with the Georgia Secretary of State’s office. “We knew it would be high. We knew it would beat 2018. We did not expect it to rival 2020.”
As of Friday morning, more than 600,000 ballots had been cast in the midterm elections, according to the Georgia Secretary of State’s office.
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