{"id":1744421,"date":"2022-11-18T18:47:25","date_gmt":"2022-11-18T23:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1744421"},"modified":"2022-11-18T18:47:29","modified_gmt":"2022-11-18T23:47:29","slug":"georgia-democrats-cry-voter-suppression-over-a-law-that-will-restrict-ballot-harvesting-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/georgia-democrats-cry-voter-suppression-over-a-law-that-will-restrict-ballot-harvesting-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgia Democrats Cry \u2018Voter Suppression\u2019 Over A Law That Will Restrict Ballot Harvesting Plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgeorgia-democrats-cry-voter-suppression-over-a-law-that-will-restrict-ballot-harvesting-plans%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1744421&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>As Georgia gears up for a runoff between Democrat Sen. Raphael Warnock and his Republican challenger Herschel Walker, Democrats in the state are once again <a href=\"https:\/\/www.democracydocket.com\/news-alerts\/republicans-seek-to-limit-early-voting-in-georgia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">crying<\/a> wolf \u2014 aka, voter suppression \u2014 over a state law that prohibits early voting on the Saturday after Thanksgiving. <\/p>\n<p>The Democratic Party of Georgia \u2014 along with Warnock\u2019s campaign and prominent Democratic lawyer Marc Elias \u2014 have filed a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.democracydocket.com\/cases\/georgia-runoff-nov-26-early-voting-challenge\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">lawsuit<\/a> seeking to prevent the Peach State from banning early voting on Saturday, Nov. 26, two days after Thanksgiving. But Georgia law clearly states that if the second Saturday before the election follows a Thursday or Friday public holiday, early voting should not happen on that Saturday. The Georgia runoff will be held on Dec. 6.<\/p>\n<p>While there is still plenty of time for voters to cast their ballots before the runoff, Democrats are still trying to fuel the voter suppression myth in a state that has seen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.honestelections.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/GA-2022-Election-Factsheet.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">record-breaking voter turnout<\/a> \u2014 particularly among minority voters \u2014 after Georgia strengthened its voter laws last year. <\/p>\n<p>Democrats argue that the law the state relies on to bar early voting on Nov. 26 does not include the word \u201crunoff,\u201d so voters should not be prevented from voting early on that Saturday. The first line of the section in question, however \u2014 section (d)(1)(B) of Georgia Code \u00a7 21-2-385 \u2014 refers to \u201ceach primary, election, or runoff\u201d and mentions a \u201crunoff\u201d two additional times.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMarc Elias is doing what he is notorious for: running to the courts to rewrite election laws on the eve of an election. Unfortunately, that is exactly what is taking place in Georgia. Like every Marc Elias lawsuit, this latest attack on Georgia\u2019s election laws is purely politically motivated, calculated to expand early voting in areas likely to vote Democratic,\u201d Jason Snead, executive director of the Honest Elections Project, said in a statement. <\/p>\n<p>While Democratic incumbent\u00a0Sen.\u00a0Raphael Warnock narrowly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2022\/11\/08\/us\/elections\/results-georgia-us-senate.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">beat<\/a> Republican challenger Herschel\u00a0Walker on Nov. 8, neither candidate scored more than 50 percent of the vote, thereby triggering the runoff required by Georgia state law. In order for the GOP to keep its current 50 seats in the Senate, Walker must take Warnock\u2019s place.<\/p>\n<p>While Democrats have learned how to rig <a href=\"https:\/\/spectator.org\/it-isnt-time-to-care-who-the-republican-party-2024-nominee-is\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">early voting and mail-in balloting in their favor<\/a>, the decision to not allow early voting on Nov. 26 will hurt their strategic ballot harvesting efforts \u2014 which is why they\u2019re fighting so hard to overturn it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey want as many days of voting as possible,\u201d Snead told The Federalist. \u201cSince they\u2019re looking at a very condensed timeline for voting in the runoff, they are desperate, particularly for an extra weekend day. But Georgia law says if you\u2019ve got a public holiday on a Thursday or Friday, then you cannot have early voting on Saturday. \u201c<\/p>\n<p>Since the Democrats\u2019 lawsuit does not seek to <em>compel <\/em>early voting but only to <em>allow <\/em>early voting on Nov. 26, Democrats are counting on the fact that only big, metropolitan counties with lots of left-leaning voters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Georgia gears up for a runoff between Democrat Sen. Raphael Warnock and his Republican challenger Herschel Walker, Democrats in the state are once again crying wolf \u2014 aka, voter suppression \u2014 over a state law that prohibits early voting on the Saturday after Thanksgiving. The Democratic Party of Georgia \u2014 along with Warnock\u2019s campaign [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1130,"featured_media":1744424,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1744421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1744421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1130"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1744421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1744421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1744424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1744421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1744421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1744421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}