Georgia surpassed one million early voters on Friday — as the key swing state has been shattering previous records — but a surge in rural turnout could indicate that early voting may not be quite as beneficial to Democrats as they would hope.

Georgia voters took to the polls in record numbers Tuesday, casting more than 300,000 ballots on the first day of early voting, according to officials. Gabriel Sterling, the chief operating officer of Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger’s (R) office shared in a post on the social platform X that the Peach State had

At least 252,000 voters had cast ballots at early-voting sites as of 4 p.m. EDT (2000 GMT), nearly double the 136,000 who participated in the first day of early voting in the 2020 election, said Gabriel Sterling, Georgia's No. 2 election official. "Spectacular turnout," he wrote on social media.