The highest number of early votes have been submitted in Fulton County.
More than 1 million people have voted in the battleground state of Georgia in the first four days of early voting, according to Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger’s office.
The highest number (136,744) of early votes have been submitted in Fulton County, which in the 2020 election became the focus of multiple recounts following former President Donald Trump’s claims of voter fraud.
Trump’s allegations were partly based on video showing Fulton County election workers continuing to count ballots late into the night after observers were told to leave. State election officials, including Raffensperger, said that the workers were following normal procedures and no fraud occurred.
Fulton County was included in a broader hand recount of all ballots in Georgia that took place after the 2020 presidential election, later followed by a machine recount at the request of the Trump campaign, which confirmed the accuracy of the initial results.
Georgia’s record-breaking early voter turnout could be driven by several factors, including the legacy of the contested 2020 election and a strong emphasis on voter turnout by both parties in the current election cycle.
A total of nearly 56 million mail-in ballots have been requested in the current election cycle, per the Election Lab, whose data also showed that registered Democrats were outpacing Republicans by a factor of around 1.6 in terms of both mail-in ballots requested and submitted.
An average of 11 polls taken between Sept. 23 and Oct. 16 shows Trump in the lead by 1.1 points with 48.7 percent to Harris’ 47.6 percent in Georgia, considered a key battleground state in the 2024 presidential race.
In 2020, Georgia election officials certified the race in favor of President Joe Biden over Trump by an 11,779-vote margin, a far smaller difference than in Trump’s 2016 victory against Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton, who lost the state by 211,141 votes.
Georgia is also currently the focus of an election-related legal battle.
Original News Source Link – Epoch Times
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