Georgia

Cattledog

(6,371 posts) Tue Nov 15, 2022, 05:46 AM Nov 2022

How GA is suppressing the Runoff vote.

Early Voting is M-F 9a-5p. No weekend voting. Counties can switch hours to 7a-7p but it is up to each county. EV starts 11-28.

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How GA is suppressing the Runoff vote. (Original Post) Cattledog Nov 2022 OP

I think you put this up yesterday. secondwind Nov 2022 #1

A member requested I cross post to the GA group. Cattledog Nov 2022 #3

Aha! Got it. Makes sense, too! secondwind Nov 2022 #4

I'm sure most will vote as they did a week ago. jimfields33 Nov 2022 #2

You cannot be penalized at work to vote liberal N proud Nov 2022 #5

Where is that law? gab13by13 Nov 2022 #8

Even if you don't get 'punished', I assume you don't get 'paid', either. 70sEraVet Nov 2022 #9

Many employers are good at finding other excuses to punish people. raging moderate Nov 2022 #10

Timing ga_girl Nov 2022 #11

We've had record turnout in both the primaries & the general election. oldsoftie Nov 2022 #6

That's Georgia, I guess. Warnock will still win. Joinfortmill Nov 2022 #7

Isn't there a Robert E. Lee holiday for his birthday in there somewhere? NoMoreRepugs Nov 2022 #12

Raphael Warnock sues Georgia over early voting restrictions for runoff LetMyPeopleVote Nov 2022 #13

secondwind

(16,903 posts)

1. I think you put this up yesterday.

Reply to Cattledog (Original post)

Tue Nov 15, 2022, 05:48 AM

Nov 2022

Cattledog

(6,371 posts)

3. A member requested I cross post to the GA group.

Reply to secondwind (Reply #1)

Tue Nov 15, 2022, 06:26 AM

Nov 2022

secondwind

(16,903 posts)

4. Aha! Got it. Makes sense, too!

Reply to Cattledog (Reply #3)

Tue Nov 15, 2022, 06:28 AM

Nov 2022

jimfields33

(19,314 posts)

2. I'm sure most will vote as they did a week ago.

Reply to Cattledog (Original post)

Tue Nov 15, 2022, 06:09 AM

Nov 2022

liberal N proud

(60,973 posts)

5. You cannot be penalized at work to vote

Reply to Cattledog (Original post)

Tue Nov 15, 2022, 06:42 AM

Nov 2022

Your employer cannot punish you if you ask to leave work to vote.
That, plus, if you are in line by 5:00PM, they must allow you to vote. Even in early voting.

The Democrats need to get this out to all their voters.

gab13by13

(25,400 posts)

8. Where is that law?

Reply to liberal N proud (Reply #5)

Tue Nov 15, 2022, 07:31 AM

Nov 2022

70sEraVet

(4,235 posts)

9. Even if you don't get 'punished', I assume you don't get 'paid', either.

Reply to liberal N proud (Reply #5)

Tue Nov 15, 2022, 07:36 AM

Nov 2022

Not an easy choice for some folks.

raging moderate

(4,517 posts)

10. Many employers are good at finding other excuses to punish people.

Reply to liberal N proud (Reply #5)

Tue Nov 15, 2022, 07:42 AM

Nov 2022

Especially those employers who long for the "good old days."

ga_girl

(198 posts)

11. Timing

Reply to liberal N proud (Reply #5)

Tue Nov 15, 2022, 08:03 AM

Nov 2022

If you're in line on election day at 7 PM, the poll officials are required to let you vote. After 7 PM, you will not be allowed to vote. Same rule applies to Advanced In Person (aka Early Voting).

However, if you're not in your assigned precinct, things change. Before 5 PM, you'll be directed to go to your assigned precinct, and we will provide you with that address. After 5 PM, you'll be allowed to vote using a provisional out of precinct ballot (OP). A provisional ballot will probably have to be cured (I don't have the instruction letter in front of me), requiring a trip to Elections headquarters. Thankfully there's only one race, so an OP ballot will be identical at any precinct.

Also, if you did not vote on November 8, you can vote on December 6, as long as you're a registered voter.

oldsoftie

(13,538 posts)

6. We've had record turnout in both the primaries & the general election.

Reply to Cattledog (Original post)

Tue Nov 15, 2022, 07:09 AM

Nov 2022

In many areas, Saturday voting actually had lower turnout than weekly voting. But I'm sure there will be a falloff for the runoff; there usually is. the only fear is that now that we know the control of the Senate doesn't ride on this race, some DEMOCRATS will take a pass.

It hasn't been that long ago that we only had ONE day to vote. There's no reason not to vote THIS time if you voted back then

Joinfortmill

(16,621 posts)

7. That's Georgia, I guess. Warnock will still win.

Reply to Cattledog (Original post)

Tue Nov 15, 2022, 07:25 AM

Nov 2022

Dems want it more.

NoMoreRepugs

(10,646 posts)

12. Isn't there a Robert E. Lee holiday for his birthday in there somewhere?

Reply to Cattledog (Original post)

Tue Nov 15, 2022, 08:37 AM

Nov 2022

Fuckin’ racist Goobers.

LetMyPeopleVote

(155,514 posts)

13. Raphael Warnock sues Georgia over early voting restrictions for runoff

Reply to Cattledog (Original post)

Tue Nov 15, 2022, 04:31 PM

Nov 2022

Kemp and the Georgia vote suppressors shorten the time for run offs to try to suppress the vote by denying sufficient time for early voting. Here this law is cutting off weekend voting.

Link to tweet

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/nov/15/raphael-warnock-sues-georgia-early-voting-restrictions

Raphael Warnock’s campaign sued Georgia on Tuesday after the state said it would not offer Saturday early voting for the closely watched runoff in which Warnock is seeking re-election to the US Senate.

The suit challenges the state’s interpretation of a law that would prohibit early voting on the Saturday following Thanksgiving. The day after Thanksgiving is also a state holiday in Georgia, originally to commemorate Robert E Lee, the Confederate civil war general. In 2015, state officials dropped Lee’s name and started recognizing the day simply as a “state holiday”.

Lawyers for Warnock’s campaign argued that the voting prohibition only applies to primary and general elections, not runoffs, which have a much shorter voting period. Last year, Georgia Republicans passed a law shortening the runoff period from nine weeks to four. But the shortened runoff period is coming into conflict with the state law that bars early voting around holidays.

he state “misreads” and “cherry-picks” provisions of the law that do not apply to runoffs, lawyers for Warnock’s campaign wrote in a complaint, which was joined by the Georgia Democratic party and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. “The secretary’s insistence that counties may not hold advance voting on November 26 therefore has no support in the law and conflicts with [the statute’s] requirement that counties begin advance voting for the December 6 runoff as soon as possible,” it reads.

The suit asks a judge to declare that state law does not prohibit counties from offering early voting on the Saturday after Thanksgiving and to order the state not to take any action blocking them from doing so

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