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New data: Georgia voters are more diverse but older than you think

By Kristina Torres
Nov 4, 2016

Georgia voters have changed since they last elected a president four years ago, and not in the way you might think.

Heading into Tuesday's presidential election, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution parsed data from voter registration files kept by the Georgia Secretary of State's Office to get a glimpse of who voters are, where they live and how they've changed since 2012.

Baby Boomers may have more influence than you might think, Latinos are a voting force in a county you might not expect and women outnumber men as registered voters in all 159 counties. Every. Single. County.

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