By Jill Nolin | Editor
Tuesday was the first chance for voters to cast a ballot, and many did. We hit up the polls to hear what voters had to say as voting starts for the Nov. 3 election.
And U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff and Congressman Mike Collins sharpened their attacks at a second debate held last night.
Voters cast their ballots at a DeKalb County polling place on the first day of early voting in the midterm elections. Maya Homan/Georgia Recorder
2026 ELECTION
By Maya Homan
The polls are officially open for the midterm elections, and Georgia voters are ready.
Nearly 189,000 people cast their ballots during the first day of early voting, surpassing the first day voter turnout during the 2022 midterms by over 50,000 votes. Tuesday's turnout also set a new record for the first day of midterm election early voting, according to the secretary of state's office.
The day also featured appearances from some of the biggest names in Georgia politics. U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff, a Democrat running for re-election against Republican Congressman Mike Collins, cast his ballot Tuesday morning at an Atlanta polling place. He also urged residents to proactively make a plan to vote and cautioned them not to wait until Election Day to cast their ballots.
“You don’t want to risk a bad alternator or a thunderstorm,” Ossoff said. “Go ahead and take care of things now.”
Republican U.S. Rep. Mike Collins debates incumbent Democratic U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff during the Loudermilk-Young Senate Debate Series at the Georgia Public Broadcasting studio in Atlanta on Tuesday, October 13, 2026. (Pool photo via Miguel Martinez/AJC)
2026 ELECTION
By Ross Williams
Democratic U.S. Sen Jon Ossoff and Republican Congressman Mike Collins met face to face on the debate stage Tuesday for their second and likely final confrontation before the Nov. 3 midterm elections.
The two candidates for Georgia’s U.S. Senate seat clashed over issues including immigration, the war in Iran and the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein at Georgia Public Broadcasting’s Atlanta studio in a fiery debate that again veered into personal attacks.
Dr. Sindhura Manubolu, the director of the family medicine program at the Long Island City Health Center in New York, received her medical degree in India. Some fear the Trump administration’s immigration policies will dissuade or prevent doctors who earned their medical degrees in foreign countries from practicing in the United States. (Photo by Shalina Chatlani/Stateline)
HEALTHCARE
By Shalina Chatlani
As the nation’s physician shortage worsens, some fear the Trump administration’s immigration policies will dissuade or prevent doctors who earned their medical degrees in foreign countries from practicing in the United States.
Among all U.S. doctors, an estimated one quarter were educated abroad. But they make up an even larger proportion of physicians in many specialties, including internal medicine (41%), endocrinology (46%) and geriatrics (52%).
The U.S. has long welcomed foreign-educated physicians as a way to ameliorate its doctor shortage. Already, an estimated 102 million Americans live in communities that don’t have enough primary care providers, according to the federal Health Resources and Services Administration. The agency projects a shortage of 141,160 full-time physicians by 2038.
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