FULTON COUNTY, Georgia. – One of the millions of people who have already gone to the polls in Georgia You have had to wait a long time to cast your vote.

In 1983, Archive Williams was wrongfully convicted of rape and sentenced to life in prison at Angola State Prison in Louisiana, one of the bloodiest in the country.

The Innocence Project, which works to free wrongfully convicted defendants, said Williams had been prosecuted and convicted despite having an alibi and based largely on an uncertain identification of the victim, who chose him from a series of photographs.

Williams began serving his sentence at age 22 and the group had been working to free him since 1995.

After 35 years in prison, a match of fingerprints found at the scene of the 1982 rape and stabbing in Baton Rouge pointed to another man: a confessed serial rapist who died in prison in 1996.

Williams was finally able to get out of prison. She then used her singing skills to earn a spot on “America’s Got Talent,” making it all the way to the finale of the show’s fifteenth season.

While the Louisiana native spent time between California and Georgia, the Peach State is now his home.

He made it completely official by stopping by the Fulton County Courthouse to vote for the first time in his life.

“It was exciting. It was definitely exciting,” he said.

He described the voting process at the courthouse as “smooth.”

As of Friday morning, more than 3.6 million Georgians had cast their ballots early, more than 51% of the state’s total number of active voters.