Georgia's early vote passed 1.78 million ballots on Monday morning, October 26, eight days before the November 3 midterm elections. FOX 5 Atlanta, citing the Georgia secretary of state's unofficial turnout dashboard, reported that 1,781,209 ballots had been accepted: 1,698,469 in person and 82,740 by absentee ballot. That is 23.7% of Georgia's 7,530,073 active voters.
Local reporting from Savannah gives the same picture a day earlier at county level. The Savannah Business Journal reported on Monday that 1,675,268 people had voted in person statewide as of 2 p.m. on Sunday, and that in Chatham County 38,486 people had voted in person as of Sunday afternoon, with 2,815 absentee ballots received and accepted, for a total of 41,301.
Source: Savannah Business Journal — Early voting numbers in Georgia continue to climb, Oct. 26, 2026
In-person up, absentee down from 2022
Absentee voting is running well behind the last midterm: FOX 5 reported that 164,750 absentee ballots had been requested, compared with more than 285,000 in 2022, and Georgia's request deadline passed on October 23. In-person voting, by contrast, was 12% ahead of the same point in 2022 as of October 20, according to the secretary of state's office. Georgia set a first-day turnout record on October 13, and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said at the time that the record showed voters trust the integrity of the state's elections, Fox News reported.
Georgia does not register voters by party, so any party share of the early vote is a model estimate, not an official count — and accepted ballots show only that a ballot was cast, not how anyone voted. No votes are counted or released before polls close. Early voting in Georgia ends on Friday, October 30; voters can check their early voting sites on the secretary of state's My Voter Page. Election Day is Tuesday, November 3.