{"id":1748472,"date":"2022-11-22T16:47:51","date_gmt":"2022-11-22T21:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1748472"},"modified":"2022-11-22T16:47:55","modified_gmt":"2022-11-22T21:47:55","slug":"gop-asks-georgias-highest-court-to-limit-early-voting-in-senate-runoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-asks-georgias-highest-court-to-limit-early-voting-in-senate-runoff\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP Asks Georgia\u2019s Highest Court To Limit Early Voting In Senate Runoff"},"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\">24<\/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%2Fgop-asks-georgias-highest-court-to-limit-early-voting-in-senate-runoff%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=1748472&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><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/republican-party\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GOP<\/a> groups have requested that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/georgia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Georgia<\/a>\u2019s Supreme Court prohibit early voting this Saturday in the state\u2019s runoff <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/u-s-senate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senate<\/a> election, arguing that state law dictates that early voting can\u2019t take place on that day because it follows the Thanksgiving holiday.<\/p>\n<p>The Georgia Republican Party, the National Republican Senatorial Committee, and the Republican National Committee filed an appeal with the state\u2019s Supreme Court after an appeals court rejected a similar request from Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/2022-midterm-elections-herschel-walker-georgia-atlanta-83f554285f2740a6fb8b97a862632150\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Associated Press<\/a>. The Georgia Court of Appeals dismissed Raffensperger\u2019s request on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Raffensperger argued, and the GOP groups maintain, that state law prohibits early voting on Saturday if a holiday falls on either of the two days before. Thursday, Thanksgiving, and Friday are both recognized holidays. This coming Saturday will be the only opportunity to cast any early vote on a Saturday before the runoff election on December 6.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe court of appeals\u2019 denial of the Intervenor\u2019s motion for emergency stay allows the superior court\u2019s interpretation of [state law] to gut the statute, sow utter chaos, and unevenly impact Georgia voters\u2019 access to advance voting,\u201d the Tuesday GOP <a href=\"https:\/\/www.democracydocket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/RNC-NRSC-GAGOP-Supreme-Court-Filing-Package.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">filing<\/a> says.<\/p>\n<p>The GOP intervention in the case comes after Raffensperger decided against pursuing the issue. Raffensperger\u2019s office said Monday that he would not file any additional appeals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe court has worked its will. We believe this is something the General Assembly should consider clarifying to avoid confusion in the future. I hope that election workers are able to enjoy a somewhat restful holiday despite this decision,\u201d Raffensperger spokesman Mike Hassinger said, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ajc.com\/politics\/georgia-appeals-court-allows-saturday-early-voting-in-us-senate-runoff\/NNQ4B7DY25ARVGXK7AQPNBDSMM\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Atlanta Journal-Constitution<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>At least 10 counties are expected to offer early voting on Saturday. The legal battle began after Raffensperger prohibited early voting on Saturday, citing state law. His decision sparked a lawsuit from the campaign of incumbent Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock and the Georgia Democratic Party.<\/p>\n<p>Warnock will face GOP challenger Herschel Walker in the runoff election. The November 8 general election ended with neither candidate reaching the required 50% threshold to avoid a runoff. Warnock ended slightly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/2022-election\/results\/georgia\/senate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ahead<\/a> with 49.4% of the vote to Walker\u2019s 48.5%. Libertarian Party candidate Chase Oliver, who will not appear on the ballot in the runoff, finished with 2.1%.<\/p>\n<p>The runoff election will decide whether the Republican Party will maintain its 50-50 split in the Senate or lose a seat and give the Democrats a 51-49 advantage. The additional Democratic seat would allow Democrats to pass legislation on party-line votes without the tiebreaking vote of Vice President Kamala Harris. The legislation would have to be approved by a GOP-controlled House, however.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOP groups have requested that Georgia\u2019s Supreme Court prohibit early voting this Saturday in the state\u2019s runoff Senate election, arguing that state law dictates that early voting can\u2019t take place on that day because it follows the Thanksgiving holiday. The Georgia Republican Party, the National Republican Senatorial Committee, and the Republican National Committee filed an &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":1748475,"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":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1748472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"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\/1748472","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\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1748472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1748472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1748475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1748472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1748472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1748472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}