986,597 people have voted so far in Georgia's 2022 elections. Today's thread is an explainer of how folks can use those numbers to make whatever point they want.
You'll see a lot of people trying to tell you what these vote totals mean, usually in a way that lines up with what they want to be true.
Here are a few examples of how you can play with that.
First, let's go the easy route. Assume that all the mail and in-person votes currently cast follow their 2020 statewide breakdown. (D+30 on mail, R+6 on in-person)
This is a lot of votes, yes. But also, articles like this one are way off. And if the SoS office is giving people this impression, rather than journalists just getting it way wrong, I hope they stop.
First, thanks to all you weirdos checking out the site. Hopefully the new AWS backend is working and it won't freeze up like it did at a couple points last year.
Second, a couple hundred of you have found the new page I launched last night. It looks at a few daily demographic statistics (for in-person voting only) and compares them to 2018 and 2020. Right now it's just gender, White/Black, and 65-Plus.
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