ATLANTA — Georgia is continuing to smash early voting records.

On Friday afternoon, Georgia Secretary of State’s Office Chief Operating Officer Gabriel Sterling, confirmed Georgia officially passed one million votes cast in the early voting period.

The state remains a focus in one of the closest presidential contests in recent memory.

There are about seven million registered voters in Georgia, meaning about 14% of voters have cast their vote as of early Friday afternoon.

It’s unclear what the big turnout means for the presidential race or for other contests up and down the ballot. Most of the state’s 8.2 million registered voters have not yet cast ballots.

The big voting push comes as Vice President Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump continue to treat Georgia as a must-win state. Harris will be in Atlanta Saturday, October 18, following a Trump rally earlier this week in Cobb County.

Georgia counties will offer at least 16 days of early in-person voting in advance of the November 5 general election — some also offer additional Sunday voting. The final day of early in-person voting will be November 1, the Friday before election day.