Thread by @gtryan

Today is the day! Early in-person voting has begun across Georgia.

With 439,000 votes already cast by mail, now we get to the real fun. It's not outrageous to assume that we'll see a million votes per week over these final 3 weeks.

#gapol #gapolitics

georgiavotes.com

Word on the street from @stphnfwlr is that we've already got hour-plus long lines at some voting locations, which opened up at 8am this morning.

Remember, you can vote at any early voting location in your county and any weekday the next 3 weeks. Don't let a line discourage you!

If you have questions about voting early, your My Voter Page is probably the best place to start: mvp.sos.ga.gov/MVP/mvp.do

It really is a great resource. #VOTE

On the data side, we dug into voter list demographics today on the newsletter. You can go read all about it here, but I'll summarize the high level points as well.

georgiavotes.substack.com

Young people are registering to vote at an incredible clip, and these young voters are much more likely to be people of color. In fact, the share of white registered voters drops below 50% starting around age 45.

Not too surprisingly, we also see a similar trend with partisan primary voting, as the average voter up to age 35 is more likely to vote in a Democratic primary than a Republican one.

But the 2020 primary also showed 2 key points on voting activity.

1. Many more people chose to vote in the Democratic primary, a majority of voters of every age up to 58 (!?!)
2. Young people, despite their edge is registrations, were much MUCH less likely to vote.

In other words, demographics may be destiny, but only if you #Vote. So everybody, no matter who you're voting for, go show up this week and be counted.

God, I an already tell that I’m going to be staying up late (or waking up really early) to run the numbers from today as soon as possible.

There are election-day style lines all over the state.