Georgia officials sued over Saturday poll closure in Senate runoff

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Republicans know their best chance of electing Herschel Walker is to keep voter participation low. And they're doing everything in their power to make that happen. (via TheReidOut Blog)

in 2015. So Georgia’s Republican election officials are effectively using the Thanksgiving holiday and the specter of a Confederate general to hinder the re-election chances of Georgia’s first Black senator.

The voter suppression law they passed last year cut the time between general elections and runoffs by more than half — from nine weeks to four. The official window for early voting in next month’s runoff is just five days, from Nov. 28 through Dec. 2. But the lawsuit filed by Democrats argues that not only should there be voting on Nov. 26, but Raffensperger’s interpretation of the statute allows for voting on the previous Saturday as well.

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