In Georgia, ballots cast by Black voters are up 15% while ballots from white voters are down 3% compared to the previous midterm cycle.
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Deadline: White HouseOct 28, 2026
The claim's direction for Black voters is supported: Georgia's early electorate shows Black voters rising to 32.4% of ballots from 30.2% in 2022.
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… In two states that track race as part of voter registration records, ballots cast by Black voters are a larger share of the early vote than in the previous midterm cycle. Ballots cast by Black voters in North Carolina are up 63% from the same point in 2022. In Georgia, they're up 15%, while ballots from white voters are down 3%. Black voters in Florida are using in-person early voting at twice the rate they did in 2022. That's according to Michael McDonald of the University of Florida Election Lab. …
Deadline: White House · · from the transcriptPost →What we found
Contradicts. Georgia Votes reports 1,484,965 white early voters in 2026 against a 2022 total of about 2.51 million, which implies white ballot counts were not down 3%. The reported decline is in white share (58.2% to 52.5%), not in raw ballots.[1]
Supports. Black voters' share of Georgia's early vote rose to 32.4% from 30.2% at the same point in 2022, consistent with an increase in Black early voting.[1][2]
Context. The specific 15% (Black ballots) and -3% (white ballots) figures appear only in the Bloomberg quote, repeated by Charlie Sykes, and no official or independent source reports them directly.[3]
Context. Georgia's overall early vote hit a midterm record of about 2.8 million, up roughly 12–13% from 2022, which sets the context for the group-level changes.[1][2]
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- 1Georgia Votesgeorgiavotes.com · not rated · cited for: contradicts, supports, context
- 2Early voting for Georgia midterms breaks records with 2.8M ballots castajc.com · not rated · cited for: supports, context
- 3“The Fierce Urgency of Now”charliesykes.substack.com · not rated · cited for: context
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