Explore Georgia Republicans propose limits on absentee voting and use of ballot drop boxes They’re all crooked in my opinion,” said Mary Lambert, a 39-year-old from Ringgold. “I don’t feel anybody was worth voting for. Other voters who also sat out the runoffs also said they were demotivated after the presidential election, which Trump lost in Georgia by less than 12,000 votes. The runoffs’ outcome: Democrats Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock ousted Republican incumbents David Perdue and Kelly Loeffer, and the Democrats took the majority in the U.S. They were more racially diverse and younger voters who tend to back Democrats. Meanwhile, 228,000 new voters cast ballots in the runoffs who hadn’t voted in the Nov. “What good would it have done to vote? They have votes that got changed,” Roland said. Roland said he didn’t believe his vote would count. Every Georgia jurisdiction is mandated to have early voting Monday through Friday.Trump’s message that the election was stolen discouraged voters such as Craig Roland, a 61-year-old Rome resident. Many counties will also offer voting on Sunday.
Just under 1,500 ballots had been cast in Cobb. More than 7,500 people had voted in Gwinnett and about 3,400 in DeKalb. They’re using it.”Īs of 1:30 p.m., Gabriel Sterling, chief operating officer for the secretary of state’s office, reported that more than 11,100 votes had been cast in Fulton. This gives them one more opportunity, and the people are once again voting with their feet. “Who may not have the luxury of voting during a weekday. ”People, especially working people, wage earners, are the ones I was thinking about,” Warnock said. In a press briefing afterward, he called securing Saturday voting a win for democracy. Warnock mentioned the lawsuit toward the end of his stump speech, saying “we had to take them to court just so you could vote today.”
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Warnock had a series of stops, including an afternoon rally in Sandy Springs with several local officials and U.S. Walker did not have any public campaign events announced in advance on Saturday. Raffensperger’s office then appealed to the state Court of Appeals, which upheld the initial ruling.Ĭheck out the massive line as Saturday voting gets underway in Marietta. Warnock and the Democratic Party of Georgia filed a lawsuit arguing that the law did not apply to runoffs, and a Fulton County judge agreed. But he later reversed course, contending that state law prohibited voting within two days after a holiday. Shortly after it became clear a runoff would be necessary, Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said Saturday advance voting would be allowed. The opportunity, though, almost didn’t materialize. “So we knew we had Saturday open and if we needed to wait we’d be able to.” Garner Library at Ponce de Leon, where the line to vote wrapped around one side of the building. “We’ve been stuck in lines that were like four hours long before,” Katie McCarthy, 36, said at Atlanta’s Joan P. A long line of Saturday voters in Athens gathers before the UGA-Tech game #gapol #gasen /di35axgfuJ- Greg Bluestein November 26, 2022
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