Posted on 11/18/2022 6:27:08 PM PST by Libloather
ATLANTA (AP) - A judge on Friday said Georgia law allows counties to offer early voting on the Saturday after Thanksgiving, which is the only possibility for Saturday voting before next month’s Senate runoff election between Democratic Sen Raphael Warnock and Republican Herschel Walker.
Warnock’s campaign, along with the Democratic Party of Georgia and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, filed a lawsuit this week arguing that early voting should be allowed that day. They were challenging guidance by Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger that said it would be illegal to hold early voting on Saturday, Nov. 26, the day after a state holiday.
Fulton County Superior Court Judge Thomas Cox on Friday issued an order saying Georgia law “does not specifically prohibit counties from conducting advanced voting on Saturday, November 26, 2022, for a runoff election.” He also prohibited the state from interfering in efforts to hold early voting that day or preventing any votes cast that day from being counted.
“We disagree with the Court’s order and look forward to a prompt appeal,” Raffensperger’s office said in an emailed statement.
During a hearing earlier Friday, Uzoma Nkwonta, a lawyer for the plaintiffs, noted that last week both Raffensperger and one of his top deputies said on national television that early voting would be allowed that day. Then, Nkwonta said, the secretary of state issued guidance to counties a few days later saying it wouldn’t be allowed because the law doesn’t permit early voting the day after a state holiday. Thanksgiving and the following Friday are both state holidays.
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Will be overturned on appeal to the Georgia Supreme Court and this activist judge will be put in his place
Marc Elias is already down there trying to muck things up.
Gee, I wonder the election will go .. . .
Hey, fake pastor warnock has to get a jumpstart on the cheating and fraud.
“He also prohibited the state from interfering in efforts to hold early voting that day or preventing any votes cast that day from being counted.”
If the State legislator is charged with creating the election laws, how is the judge is able to decree that “the state” is prohibited “interfering?
Seems this judge/court is the one interfering . . .
The check cleared.
Uh huh.
It worked perfectly well in 2020.
Hmmm...
I absolutely forbid voting, anywhere, on my birthday...
Don’t forget her daughter, who was initially identified as blonde braids lady
Judges can tell the Senate how to conduct their business and what rules to follow??????????
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Are they sure his name is Cox and not the singular of that word?
REPUBLICANS CAN VOTE TWICE JUST AS WELL AS DEMOCRATS. a THING THE GOOD JUDGE DOES NOT COUNT ON.
THAT IS A LIE-—
NOV 26 is a Saturday AND DEC 3 IS A SATURDAY.
RUNOFF is DEC 6
Are these judges too stupid to read a CALENDAR?????
BEYOND BELIEF
Just to clear things up.
The Judge said the law that says you can’t have a vote on the Saturday after a state holiday means you must allow a vote on the Saturday after a state holiday.
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