Posted on 12/24/2020 2:25:41 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
ATLANTA - In the first week of early voting for Georgia’s Senate runoff election, Casie Yoder parked at a polling location in Cobb County and loaded miniature hand sanitizer bottles, knitted hats, hand warmers and face masks into a collapsible wagon cart.
Her goal: to help voters stay in line in frigid temperatures and cast their ballots in a pair of high-stakes runoff contests that will determine which political party controls the Senate next year. The runoffs will also test whether Democrats can again pull together the diverse coalition that propelled President-elect Joe Biden to victory in Georgia in November and cemented the state’s status as a political battleground.
“We’ve never had an election happen like this in December,” said Yoder, the Georgia state captain for the Frontline, a nonpartisan electoral justice project of the Movement for Black Lives and other partner organizations.
For Democrats to control the Senate, Georgia’s Black communities, as well as the state’s smaller Hispanic and Asian communities, likely need to vote in the Jan. 5 runoff election by history-making margins.
There are signs that turnout in Georgia could indeed be high in the runoffs. Through Wednesday, early voting data released by the office of Georgia’s secretary of state show nearly 1.9 million voters have already cast in-person or mail-in ballots since voting opened last week. That’s almost half of the total early votes cast in the November general election, with less than two weeks left before the Senate runoff concludes.
Roughly 75,000 people in Georgia have also registered to vote ahead of the runoff, with less than half of those self-identifying as white.
“The old way of just thinking that white voters will determine statewide elections in Deep South states is rapidly fading,” said Ben Jealous, president of People For the American Way, a progressive advocacy organization that encourages civic participation.
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Yes, let’s analyze fake elections-what a waste of energy.
The old joke about Pubbies voting on Tuesday and Dems voting on Wednesday doesn’t work anymore because Dems can vote whenever they want and the counting continues until the Dem candidate wins.
Her goal: to help voters stay in line in frigid temperatures
The lowest temp in Atlanta in December has been 29 degrees and that was at night. The daytime temps have been in 45 to 60 degrees.
She don’t know what frigid is.
The Senate Runoff is already an UNLAWFUL election because it allows persons to vote who did not vote in the original Senate election being continued in Jan., which violates state election law regarding runoff elections.
In other words, “it’s dead, Jim ...”
I’m in Helen right now, renting a VRBO because the lodge at Unicoi was so bad in June, the last time I stayed there, that I didn’t want to go back. They had no staff and weird policies that made you feel like a leper.
I was watching A Christmas Carol on the ROKU channel on the TV in the condo, and I had to mute at least 5 minutes of Ossoff ads at every break. The Dems are pouring money into this, and every ad is white men with trucks proclaiming how much Ossoff loves them and how he is a real man. Bizarre beyond belief, but evidently effective.
You think Dems are heavy favorites?
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