Fulton County Superior Court Judge Thomas Cox also prohibited the state from interfering in efforts to hold early voting that day or preventing any votes cast that day from being counted.
A judge on Friday said Georgia law allows counties to offer early voting on the Saturday after Thanksgiving, which is the only possibility for Saturday voting before next month's Senate runoff election between Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock and Republican Herschel Walker.
"We disagree with the Court's order and look forward to a prompt appeal," Raffensperger's office said in an emailed statement. State lawmakers intentionally created a distinction between primary and general elections on one hand and runoff elections on the other, Nkwonta said. That makes sense, he reasoned, because of the condensed time period before a runoff.
"This is a legal issue, it's not a policy one," she told the judge."The issue is what does Georgia law require?" Under Georgia's 2021 election law, there will be only four weeks between the general election and the runoff — with Thanksgiving in the middle. Many Georgians will be offered only five weekdays of early in-person voting beginning Nov. 28.
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