Georgia Appeals Judge’s Ruling That Allows Early Voting This Saturday in Senate Runoff
A judge in Georgia ruled that county elections officials can provide voting on the Saturday after Thanksgiving in the upcoming Senate runoff election, prompting an appeal from the state’s attorney general on Monday.
Fulton County Superior Court Judge Thomas Cox Jr., in siding with the state’s Democratic Party and Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.), issued an order blocking (pdf) guidance issued by Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger that declared it illegal to hold early voting on Nov. 26. The Democrats’ lawsuit filed last week had argued that early voting should be allowed on that day.
Neither Warnock nor Republican candidate Herschel Walker reached 50 percent of the vote during the Nov. 8, triggering a runoff election scheduled for Dec. 6. The Libertarian Party candidate, who got about 2 percent of the vote, will be excluded from the runoff….