More than 1 million Georgia voters have already cast ballots as the state remains a focus of one of the closest presidential contests in recent memory.

Today is just the third day of early in person voting and it’s already at ~20% of the entire 2020 vote (both early and on election day)

Make sure to get out and vote!

  • RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world
    5·
    1 month ago

    Do we have any idea which direction these votes are going? Are there early voting exit polls? Yes, I know recent trends point to blue early voting, but that’s no guarantee.

    • usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.mlOP
      6·
      1 month ago

      They don’t release exit polling until after polls close on election day

      There is not direct data on who they are voting for, only demographic data. For instance, you can see that currently around 55% of early voters in Georgia are women. In some states you can also look at party registration but that doesn’t tell you everything (people often don’t update it) and a large chunk are not registered, but that can get you a good idea

        • usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.mlOP
          6·
          1 month ago

          General consesus seems to be the early vote data looks good for dems overall. Some suggest that there maybe a slight increase in republicans switching from election day voting to early, but otherwise looks pretty good. Honestly would have expected more of that given that republicans theoretically made it a focus of their get out the vote to get people to vote earlier

          Analyzing early voting data can be a little tricky because of you can only look at those indirect metrics. I mean even with party registration it doesn’t tell you if republicans are choosing not to vote for trump which the republican oversampling polling suggests we might see more of compared to 2020