Excited to have so many great @ajc.com journalists on Bluesky today reporting on today's elections in Georgia!
Per @bluestein.bsky.social , midday turnout is topping 200,000. Roughly 140,000 of those ballots were Republican.
Those numbers are being closely watched by the campaigns. Burt Jones' gubernatorial campaign, for example, is banking on high Election Day turnout
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The Secretary of State's office, meanwhile, clarified that it is not working from its operations center, which its conservative critics have dubbed the "bunker." My colleague David Wickert reports that GEMA is using the center today to oversee security for the World Cup
There's rain in the forecast today, which could dampen turnout. But as my colleague Shannon McCaffrey noted, a recent study found that the rise of mail-in, advance in-person and other alternative methods of voting have helped offset weather-related dips in recent presidential elections