where we saw lines yesterday afternoon. again, too early to have the lines. just steady foot traffic coming into the library and we ve seen record turnout here in the state of georgia. let s take a look at the national numbers, though when you look at 46 states in the union. you re seeing more than 17.5 million people have already cast their ballots. but when you look a bit further at that youth, younger folks from ages 22 to 29, only 4% of them make up the ballot count. we were at 7% this far into the 2020 election. we re not seeing the younger population coming out. really, it s people 65 and older who are driving that early vote count. last week, we went to a concert that was held here in atlanta, to really encourage people, the younger community, to get out and vote. and we spoke with a man who scomblanled explained that people are just not voting. that earlier demographic.
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quickly about what happened in georgia. this week we saw this record voter turnout in georgia during the primary elections, that s despite the host of new anti-democratic voting restrictions put in place by republicans after the 2020 election. as you can imagine, conservatives are saying well, this proves the election security measures aren t actually anti-democratic and they re not targeting against minority. but it seems there s a lot more to it than what they re saying, we still don t have data on ballot rejection rapes, it shouldn t take this massive effort to get someone s ballot count. well,, again coming out of the black community i m old enough to remember at a time when people couldn t vote. when they can walk miles and miles and still could not cast a vote. so, if anything the conversation around how the voting system has been rigged in georgia, was to motivate people to come out and actually
can say things like. that but seriously, you can say it. yeah. let me ask you this really quickly about what happened in georgia. this week we saw this record voter turnout in georgia during the primary elections, that s despite the host of new anti-democratic voting restrictions put in place by republicans after the 2020 election. as you can imagine, conservatives are saying well, this proves the election security measures aren t actually anti-democratic and they re not targeting against minority. but it seems there s a lot more to it than what they re saying, we still don t have data on ballot rejection rapes, it shouldn t take this massive effort to get someone s ballot count. well,, again coming out of the black community i m old enough to remember at a time when people couldn t vote.