This was the first time a Republican candidate would win a federal statewide race in Georgia since Trump's 5% victory over Hillary Clinton in 2016.

[6] On July 29, 2024, the state added another way to cancel a voter's registration through an online portal, which has drawn criticism from groups like Fair Fight Action, worried that it would be abused.

[17] By August 5, cybersecurity researcher Jason Parker discovered a vulnerability in Georgia's voter cancellation portal that allowed users to bypass the requirement for a driver's license number, enabling the submission of voter registration cancellations with minimal, publicly available information.

The discovery drew attention to weaknesses in the system and the importance of continued efforts to secure election infrastructure.

However, QR codes will be eliminated by 2026 in favor of text the voter can read to ensure their ballot was marked correctly.

[201] Despite being located in the socially conservative Bible Belt and Deep South regions, Georgia has become competitive since the start of the 2020s.

The last Republican presidential candidate to win Georgia by a double-digit margin, and the only one to carry the state in consecutive elections, was George W. Bush.

This leftward shift is mainly attributed to the rapid population growth that the progressive and diverse Atlanta metro, which holds the majority of the state's population, has experienced in the 21st century, including an influx of African Americans, Asian Americans, Latinos, and progressive Whites.