Georgia continues to finish early primary voting this week with heavier numbers than at this time in 2018. Log on to the non-partisan website http://georgiavotes.com/ to view statewide vote totals. So far in the 2022 primary 539,297 people have voted. At this point in the 2018 primary, that number was 182,684.
Total turnout for Georgia’s 2022 primary is 195% higher. And consider this partisan breakdown:
226,952 (42.1%) people have voted with Democratic ballots..
308,745 (57.2%) people have voted with Republican ballots.
3,600 (0.7%) people have voted with Non-Partisan ballots.
Interestingly, Democrats are getting hammered in turnout in other states. John Couvillon, a Democrat analyst, pointed out the massive turnout differences. Across a sample of 10 states, overall turnout went up 21% (and 2018 was a high turnout year). Democrat turnout was +3%, Rep turnout +38% for a whopping 35-point gap. Even more impressive, the Republican percentage of the vote went from 53 to 60% of the electorate. He noted that “the electorates of Kentucky, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania ‘flipped’ relative to the previous election cycle.” In Pennsylvania GOP turnout was 63% higher than 2018.
Bottom line: Georgia’s vote—-with Tuesday the primary election day—is up 155% from 2020. And this is despite election law changes that President Joe Biden and U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., label “Jim Crow in the 21st Century.”
A FINAL NOTE. See the link to your Precinct Card by signing in at https://mvp.sos.ga.gov/s/. You must go to YOUR assigned voting location on May 24.
