Published 10:39 am Wednesday, October 21, 2026 By Ty Tagami | Capitol Beat News Service ATLANTA — A record number of Georgia voters have cast early ballots in person for a midterm election, surpassing 1 million on Tuesday. “We continue to break records each day of early voting,” Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said in a statement Tuesday afternoon. Early voting started Oct. 13. By noon Tuesday, 1,007,015 voters had cast a ballot in person ahead of the Nov. 3 election, according to Raffensperger’s office. That is up by more than 12% from the 894,412 who had voted early in person by the same point in the run-up to the 2022 general election. Including the 48,916 absentee ballots, total turnout was 1,055,931. It is unclear whether Democrats or Republicans are the ones casting those ballots because Georgia does not register voters by party. Democratic voters outvoted Republicans in the May primary, marking a reversal of turnout in the 2022 primary, when GOP voters had the larger numbers. In May, Democratic primary turnout in the governor’s race was up by half from 2022, while GOP turnout for governor fell by a quarter. The proportions were similar in other statewide races. Democrat Stacey Abrams ran unopposed in the 2022 primary for governor, which may have depressed her party’s turnout that year. Raffensperger pointed to the elevated turnout Tuesday as evidence that voters trust the state’s election process. His message came nearly three weeks after James Mills, executive…
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