{"id":114681,"date":"2024-10-16T05:45:57","date_gmt":"2024-10-15T22:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=114681"},"modified":"2024-10-16T05:45:57","modified_gmt":"2024-10-15T22:45:57","slug":"georgia-officials-report-record-turnout-on-first-day-of-early-voting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=114681","title":{"rendered":"Georgia Officials Report Record Turnout on First Day of Early Voting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">After weeks of fielding phone calls, text messages and direct mail pleas to cast ballots before Election Day, Georgia voters did not waste time: Within six hours of polls opening on Tuesday, the presidential battleground state had posted record turnout for the first day of early voting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Gabriel Sterling, the chief operating officer for the Georgia secretary of state\u2019s office, said that more than 154,000 people had voted by 1 p.m. on Tuesday, beating the daylong tally of 136,000 from 2020. By 4 p.m., Mr. Sterling said, close to 252,000 people had been to the polls.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Many counties reported short lines as voters, once they made it past thickets of signs, cast ballots and then donned voting stickers emblazoned with a Georgia peach. (In some areas, children could collect similar stickers that marked them as future voters.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Democrats and Republicans alike have crusaded in recent weeks for people to vote early as both former President Donald J. Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris aggressively seek the state\u2019s 16 electoral votes. With no other statewide races this year \u2014 there are several low-profile ballot measures related to taxes \u2014 the presidential contest will be the unrivaled draw for many voters in Georgia.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Trump is scheduled to hold a rally in Atlanta on Tuesday night, not long after the first day of voting concludes. And former President Bill Clinton spent much of Sunday and Monday imploring Ms. Harris\u2019s supporters in south and central Georgia to get to the polls early. Ms. Harris herself is expected to visit Atlanta this weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Nearly five million Georgians voted in 2020, when Joseph R. Biden Jr. carried the state by 12,670 votes. He was the first Democratic presidential nominee to win Georgia since Mr. Clinton in 1992.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">County officials began mailing domestic absentee ballots last week; military and overseas ballots were distributed last month.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/10\/15\/us\/politics\/georgia-early-voting.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After weeks of fielding phone calls, text messages and direct mail pleas to cast ballots before Election Day, Georgia voters did not waste time: Within six hours of polls opening &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=114681\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8629],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=114681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}