Georgia set a record for the first day of early voting by casting 234,000 ballots as of Tuesday afternoon, with several hours yet to go, according to a post on X by Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger.
The previous record for the first day of early voting record was 136,000 votes set four years ago, the Georgia Recorder reported.
Georgia, which is one of the seven battleground states this election, allows for three weeks of early voting.
Raffensperger said the goal of his office at early voting sites and at the 2,400 polling places on Election Day is to have a citizen spend as little time as possible filling out their ballots. It took the average voter only a few minutes to cast a ballot on Tuesday morning.
"We want to make sure that they're less than an hour," Raffensperger said. "We loved when we had in 2022 the average wait time was less than three minutes and got down as low as two minutes at times. This morning, there appeared to be no slowdowns and lines have been moving everyone in less [time] than that."
Raffensperger added that "if you want to vote absentee, make that decision today and get your request in. If you are going to vote early, take a look at your calendar and decide when you are going to vote early, and if you are going to vote on Election Day, decide what time."
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