{"id":44041,"date":"2022-11-28T16:08:23","date_gmt":"2022-11-28T21:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=44041"},"modified":"2022-11-28T16:08:28","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T21:08:28","slug":"early-voting-in-senate-runoff-sees-long-lines-and-high-turnout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=44041","title":{"rendered":"Early voting in Senate runoff sees long lines and high turnout"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Early voting ahead of the U.S. Senate runoff election between Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock and Republican Herschel Walker began in several Georgia<\/a> counties over the weekend with a patchwork of start dates and times\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Statewide early voting<\/a> for all 159 counties begins today and ends Friday, Dec. 2 with runoff Election Day on Tuesday, Dec. 6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gabriel Sterling from the Georgia Secretary of State’s office said that weekend turnout totaled nearly 200,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lines varied by county, with densely populated<\/a> areas experiencing wait times of up to two hours or more on Saturday and Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Weekend voting is popular and a Georgia<\/a> appeals court ruled on Nov. 21 to allow counties to offer early voting for the U.S. Senate runoff election beginning Saturday, Nov. 26 \u2014 but Republican groups appealed to Georgia’s<\/a> highest court Nov. 22 in an attempt to prohibit it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Court of Appeals declined a request by the state to stay a lower court’s ruling that said state law allows early voting that day<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Warnock’s campaign, along with the Democratic Party of Georgia and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, had sued<\/a> to challenge that guidance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fulton County<\/a> Superior Court Judge Thomas Cox on Nov. 18 issued an order siding with the Warnock<\/a> campaign and the Democratic groups. He found that the law cited by the state regarding Saturday voting after a holiday does not apply to a runoff election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Georgia Republican Party, the National Republican Senatorial Committee and the Republican National Committee filed an appeal<\/a> with the Georgia Supreme Court, asking the high court to issue an emergency stay of the lower court ruling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Former U.S. President Barack Obama is returning to Atlanta<\/a> to support Sen. Warnock at a rally at Pullman Yards Thursday, Dec. 1, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Click here to find your polling place.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n[mailerlite_form form_id=16]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Early voting ahead of the U.S. Senate runoff election between Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock and Republican Herschel Walker began in several Georgia counties over the weekend with a patchwork of start dates and times\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b. Statewide early voting for all 159 counties begins today and ends Friday, Dec. 2 with runoff Election Day on Tuesday, Dec. 6. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44045,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[11861,8514,8745,8645,8646,9161],"class_list":["post-44041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-2022-election","tag-election","tag-herschel-walker","tag-raphael-warnock","tag-senate","tag-senate-runoff","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}