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Old 11-15-2022, 08:44 AM   #7673
Monahammer
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Originally Posted by nfotiu View Post
Where's the conspiracy here? Is the suggestion that someone put in a state law at some point prohibiting early voting on a Saturday following a holiday with the anticipation that a run off election might fall close to Thanksgiving one year?

I imagine the law was put in place to not interrupt poll workers holiday weekends.

As for the holiday itself, it sounds like they ditched the holiday for Robert E Lee's birthday in January and made a generic state holiday for day after Thanksgiving. That doesn't seem very nefarious.
I would say you're likely right, but knowing all of the wild voter suppression tactics that people of color have faced in Georgia and the importance of this run off to that same group, I can understand why they're ultra sensitive to coincidences like this.
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