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November 15, 2022 
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“Your Voice Is Your Vote”: Reverend Warnock Calls For Saturday Early Voting Options For Georgians 

Reverend Warnock: “This is not theoretical. These decisions have practical implications for ordinary, hard-working Georgia families.”

Reverend Warnock: “We just saw an election in November where the people of Georgia made it clear that they want to use Saturday voting…They have demonstrated what they want, and there’s nothing in the law as it is currently written to prevent it”

Atlanta, GA – Today, Reverend Warnock held a “Your Vote is Your Voice” press conference alongside voting rights leaders in Atlanta to voice his support for early voting on Saturday, November 26, so workers, families and students can make their voices heard at the ballot box. 

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Watch WRDW’s Coverage HERE

Reverend Warnock: It means workers who punch a clock may not be able to make it to the polls. Think about that. The folks who in the midst of the pandemic, we started calling essential workers, front line workers, parents with young children being forced into a narrow space in order to exercise their basic constitutional right. Not only is it wrong, it is a misinterpretation of the law.

Watch Fox 5’s Coverage HERE

Reverend Warnock: We just saw an election day in November where the people of Georgia made it clear that they want to use Saturday voting, hundreds of thousands of voters, Georgia voters voted on Saturday. They have demonstrated what they want, and there’s nothing in the law as it is currently written to prevent it.

Watch Atlanta News First’s Coverage HERE

Reverend Warnock: The folks who in the midst of the pandemic we started calling essential workers, front line workers, parents with young children being forced into a narrow space in order to exercise their basic constitutional right.

Watch Atlanta News First’s Coverage HERE

Reverend Warnock: It’s ironic that we just saw record voter turnout during the early period and the response we are getting now from Georgia officials is to short circuit the very path that Georgians have clearly laid out that they want to follow.

Washington Post: Democrats sue to allow Saturday voting in Georgia runoff amid holiday dispute

• Democrats are suing to force Georgia election officials to allow early voting on a Saturday ahead of the Dec. 6 U.S. Senate runoff election.

• The state’s decision, announced over the weekend, prompted a lawsuit from the Democrat fighting for reelection, Sen. Raphael G. Warnock, as well as the Georgia Democratic Party and the Democrats’ Senate campaign arm. They argue in their suit that current guidance “applies only to primary and general elections, not runoffs.”

• Without action by the courts, the suit states, Georgia voters “will be deprived of their right to vote during the advance voting period permitted by Georgia law.”

• Nearly 4.5 million people voted in the dual Senate runoffs — one of which was won by Warnock. That’s higher than the total number of people who voted in Georgia’s election last week.

• During a Tuesday news conference in Atlanta, Warnock said elements of Georgia’s 2021 election law — including a shorter period between the general election and the runoff — had hurt access to the ballot. “This is not theoretical. These decisions have practical implications for ordinary, hard-working Georgia families,” Warnock said. “Not only is it wrong, it is a misinterpretation of the law.”

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