Georgia sees record number of Black voters cast ballots during early voting period

Georgia sees record number of Black voters cast ballots during early voting period

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  1. Great work. They (the GOP) make it as difficult as they can for black people to vote in Georgia and everyone doing so early makes for shorter lines for those who vote on Election Day.

  2. From the [article](https://theatlantavoice.com/georgia-black-voters-record-turnout/):

    >Nearly 873,000 Black Georgians voted before Election Day, according to data from the Secretary of State’s Office.

    >[There have been 3.2 million votes cast thus far, according to election data](https://sos.ga.gov/page/election-data-hub-turnout) from the Georgia Secretary of State’s Office. In comparison to the first 16 days of early voting in 2016 (1.3 million voters) and 2020 (2.1 million voters), this year’s efforts dwarf any other records that were previously set. 

    >As to be expected, the majority of the votes come from metro Atlanta where the majority of the state’s voters reside, but there have also been record-breaking turnouts in smaller and mid-sized counties up and down the state.

    In the [Data Hub](https://sos.ga.gov/page/election-data-hub-turnout), click “Total Turnout” for data on Race, Gender, and Age.

    For ALL votes: **56% Women** and **44% Men** (as of Oct 30)

    Edits: added link and extra facts.

  8. This is the best tl;dr I could make, [original](https://theatlantavoice.com/georgia-black-voters-record-turnout/) reduced by 74%. (I’m a bot)
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    > Georgia has seen a record number of Black voters cast ballots during the early voting period.

    > The early voting period ended on Friday, November 1, and with a 45% statewide turnout, there has been a record number of votes cast in Georgia, a crucial battleground state for United States Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz; and former United States President Donald Trump and his running mate Ohio Senator J.D. Vance.

    > In comparison to the first 16 days of early voting in 2016 and 2020, this year's efforts dwarf any other records that were previously set.

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  9. I’m not sure why it’s a surprise to folks that in a state with a very large black female population, turnout would be super strong for the first black female presidential candidate.

  10. It sounds like the biggest mystery is the even larger increase in white votes. We can make assumptions but it’s impossible to really say how Democratic or how Republican that group is. 

  13. Compare this to the other report posted in this sub earlier that North Carolina turnout of black voters is “lower than expected”, providing definitive proof that nobody knows what the fresh hell is going on.

  15. If you voted early in Georgia, offer to watch your friend’s kids so she can go vote too. And maybe buy herself a coffee while she’s out. Because she deserves some dang coffee.

  20. I think the polls are REALLY neglecting the millions of liberals like me who changed registration to non partisan but still vote blue down the line

  21. I can’t wait for Trump to try his whole “the results are fake, I’m the winner” strategy with Georgia, only to realize they have invested a ton of resources into building their election data hub, which shows the voting results by county and timeframe. Going to be extremely hard to refute that in court lol. I can just imagine Trump’s shocked pikachu face when the State of Georgia brings timestamped audit trails for every vote in Georgia to their trial.

  22. That’s great news for Trump. Nobody has done more for the black community than Trump. Maybe even more than Abraham Lincoln many people are saying it.

    /s

  26. I really don’t think it’s gonna be that close. These polls have to be fucked. Every other indicator looks like a massive blue turnout.

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