Agreed.
Posted on 11/26/2022 2:57:06 PM PST by thegagline
Georgians have many reasons to be grateful this Thanksgiving, but a runoff election free from partisan lawsuits is not one of them. Amid its contentious campaign between Democrat Sen. Raphael Warnock and GOP challenger Herschel Walker, Georgia Democrats called in Marc Elias — the lawyer behind the 2016 Russia collusion hoax — to force Georgia to allow an extra day of early voting on the Saturday following Thanksgiving.
Elias shopped around for an activist judge likely to grant him an easy win, and he found one. The GOP eventually appealed, but the day before Thanksgiving the Georgia Supreme Court refused to block the lower court’s opinion.
That’s a disappointing outcome that sets aside the black-and-white text of the law. As the Honest Elections Project pointed out in our brief, Georgia’s election code clearly states that if the second Saturday before the runoff election follows a Thursday or Friday public holiday, early voting should not take place on that Saturday.
The provision is meant to give election workers an extra day off over Thanksgiving weekend. After working long hours for weeks during the midterms, Georgia’s election workers have surely earned it.
The impact on Georgia voters, meanwhile, was minimal. Voting in Georgia is easy, as the midterm election proved. For the runoffs, the law guarantees Georgians a minimum of five days to vote, and everyone can vote by mail or on Election Day.
With so much riding on the outcome of the Senate runoff, Georgia Democrats are looking for every edge. That’s why Marc Elias’s lawsuit did not seek to compel early voting statewide on Nov. 26, but to simply allow it.
That’s a distinction with a difference. Elias’s bet was that big, metropolitan counties such as Fulton County, which contains Atlanta, would be far more likely to have the resources to pull off last-minute holiday voting. Rural, less-populated counties, on the other hand, would be far less likely to be able to pull off the extra day of voting, especially with little notice.
So far, that bet seems to be paying off. Major counties which heavily favored Warnock in the Nov. 8 Midterm election have overwhelmingly embraced the extra day of runoff voting. Comparatively few conservative counties, representing a far smaller subset of the state’s population, have followed suit.
The bottom line: Elias is grabbing a bonus day of voting that Democratic counties are disproportionately taking advantage of.
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The Georgia vote fraud factories are running at full speed - three shifts a day.
VOTE EARLY
VOTE OFTEN
-PJ
Two men, one more day to vote for one.
Equality seems to have slipped away.
The only way this stops is when the Republicans start getting better at it than the Demo-communists.
Well, this election is clearly already over
Early voting, mail in ballots, open borders. The Democrats want to destroy America.
Dems are now dependent on in-person voting in GA since mail-in and drop boxes are restricted. Repubs aren’t a threat to control the Senate, so Dems are worried about motivating their voters. That is why they were so intent on having voting on the Saturday after Thanksgiving.
It was over the day Herschel Walker won the nomination.
AMEN!
And then vote again
Walker might as well just concede tonight…that fake demonic pastor is going to win it by fraud. Look what they’re doing to Kari in Arizona. Sorry walker didn’t stand a chance against the fraud machine! You see the rats have everything at their disposal judges courts media every tool available to them. We begged one judge to help us in Arizona keep the polls open because there was a massive turnout and they were having problems with the voting machines and he declined. That speaks volumes. Walker the fix is in! I wouldn’t even hold my breath that walker has a chance. McConnell he will be extra extra thrilled when Walker loses! That’s how power-hungry demented piece of chit that @$$hole is!
Not gonna happen. The republicans will not get off their high horse of “we are better than them” mentality.
Ive been in Atlanta and Clayton area for better part of the week with family. Very little Herschel presence; Way too much Warnock. The GOP appears to be letting him go. It doesn’t change the senate and it hurts Trump so it makes sense. The Stupid Party rides again!
Dems always know how to rig elections, no point in even having polls anymore..Walker already lost before the election happened
Agreed.
THe problem there is that this is not a 'Rat vs Repub thing. It is a Uniparty vs Patriot thing.
Therefore, "getting better at it" will just insure that the 'Rat or the 'repub wins, and the Patriot loses.
I have lost all respect for us as a people. We know we are being cheated and we do nothing.
Guess who has already won ?
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