{"id":1749951,"date":"2022-11-23T18:32:53","date_gmt":"2022-11-23T23:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1749951"},"modified":"2022-11-23T18:32:59","modified_gmt":"2022-11-23T23:32:59","slug":"georgia-supreme-court-sides-with-warnock-democrats-in-early-voting-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/georgia-supreme-court-sides-with-warnock-democrats-in-early-voting-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgia Supreme Court Sides With Warnock, Democrats In Early Voting Fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/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-supreme-court-sides-with-warnock-democrats-in-early-voting-fight%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=1749951&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>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/georgia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Georgia<\/a> Supreme Court voted unanimously to allow counties to offer early voting on the Saturday after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/thanksgiving\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Thanksgiving<\/a>, overruling GOP protests in favor of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/democratic-party\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Democrats<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A trio of Republican groups \u2014 Georgia Republican Party, the National Republican Senatorial Committee, and the Republican National Committee \u2014 filed an appeal with the state Supreme Court Tuesday requesting it overturn a lower court ruling allowing early voting on Saturday. The GOP groups argued that state law prohibits early voting on a Saturday that comes after a holiday on the previous Thursday or Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The state\u2019s highest court ruled 9-0 in favor of Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock\u2019s campaign and the state Democratic Party, according to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/11\/23\/georgia-oks-early-voting-in-warnock-walker-senate-runoff\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Post<\/a>. The Democratic groups argued that the provision in question applies to primary and general elections, but not to runoffs. Warnock faces GOP candidate Herschel Walker in a runoff election for Warnock\u2019s seat on December 6.<\/p>\n<p>The GOP appeal came after Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger prohibited counties from offering early voting on the Saturday after Thanksgiving. Raffensperger\u2019s order drew legal complaints from Warnock\u2019s campaign and the Democratic Party of Georgia, sparking a legal battle that appears to have ended Wednesday in the state Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>Raffensperger quit the legal battle after the state Court of Appeals ruled against the secretary of state on Monday, keeping in place a Fulton County judge\u2019s ruling. The Republican groups <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/gop-asks-georgias-highest-court-to-limit-early-voting-in-senate-runoff\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">picked up<\/a> the legal battle a day later, stating that the Court of Appeals\u2019 decision would \u201cgut the statute, sow utter chaos, and unevenly impact Georgia voters\u2019 access to advance voting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Raffensperger accused Warnock and Democrats on Wednesday after the Supreme Court\u2019s decision of meddling in the state\u2019s election laws for their own benefit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSenator Warnock and his Democratic Party allies are seeking to change Georgia law right before an election based on their political preferences,\u201d Raffensperger said in a statement, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/georgia-supreme-court-allows-early-voting-this-saturday-us-senate-runoff-election\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fox News<\/a>. \u201cInstead of muddying the water and pressuring counties to ignore Georgia law, Senator Warnock should be allowing county election officials to continue preparations for the upcoming runoff.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Warnock and Walker are facing each other in the last undecided contest for a U.S. Senate seat in 2022. The November 8 general election ended with neither candidate reaching the required 50% threshold to avoid a runoff. Warnock ended slightly\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/2022-election\/results\/georgia\/senate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ahead<\/a>\u00a0with 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>The Georgia Supreme Court voted unanimously to allow counties to offer early voting on the Saturday after Thanksgiving, overruling GOP protests in favor of Democrats. A trio of Republican groups \u2014 Georgia Republican Party, the National Republican Senatorial Committee, and the Republican National Committee \u2014 filed an appeal with the state Supreme Court Tuesday requesting &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":1749954,"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-1749951","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\/1749951","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=1749951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1749951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1749954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1749951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1749951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1749951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}