Turnout on the first day of early voting in the US swing state of Georgia was at a record high on Tuesday with more than 300,000 votes cast in the Peach State, election authorities said. That was more than twice as much as the previous record of 136,000 in 2020, according to figures provided by Gabriel Sterling, the public administrator in charge of elections in the state. “The first day of early voting is a blowout,” Sterling wrote in a post on X. In another post he wrote: “Those that say democracy is dying … the voters of Georgia would like to have a word. Over 300,000 votes cast today! Th…