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More than 250,000 Georgians cast ballots on Tuesday, the first day of early in-person voting in the southern swing state.

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Absentee mail-in ballots began to be mailed on Oct. 7.

The in-person turnout blew away the previous record for first-day early voting of 133,000, set in 2020, by early afternoon, said Gabriel Sterling, the chief operating officer for Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger.

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Hour-plus lines to vote were reported at a few early voting sites in metro Atlanta’s core counties on Tuesday afternoon, but many reported little or no wait. The total likely means more than 5 percent of all Georgians who will cast ballots before the end of Nov. 5 will vote Tuesday.