Early voting has always been available to the American public in every state for modern day elections. Although Georgia tends to be a very conservative state in presidential elections, it still has the opportunity to allow the public to vote before the date of November 6th in the state of Georgia.
However, in the ajc article I came across, it did a study over the current early voting data that has been done in Georgia. It found that only 700 thousand Georgia voters have been found to vote as of October 26th. The article then goes on to say that this value is lower than how high the value was back in the 2008 elections at this point.
This observation on the polling data goes on further to show that the absence in early voting is mostly occurring in Georgia's most democratic counties. This matters because if there is a lack of confidence in Georgia's democratic voters then that means there could be a bandwagoning mindset for future voters in Georgia that are young now to adopt a republican voting mindset.
If this mindset shift in Georgia voters does become true in the future, then that means democratic candidates in the future will have a harder time to swing Georgia to vote democratic. When democrats begin to find it difficult to swing a very conservative state then that means those candidates will begin to invest less of their campaign in that state. When that state has less presidential campaigns occurring then that state's economy will go down if there's no public audience paying money to the state governments for the tickets to watch the democratic candidate's speech. So, if this absence in early voting continues, it might lower Georgia's presidential campaign income in the future.
Source: http://www.ajc.com/news/news/state-regional-govt-politics/georgia-early-voting-behind-2008-but-saturday-surg/nSpLZ/
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