Democratic Senator Raphael Warnock’s campaign is suing to allow a Saturday of early voting in Georgia’s Senate runoff with Republican nominee Herschel Walker.
The Georgia Secretary of State’s office says state law prevents Saturday voting within two days of a state holiday.
Thanksgiving falls in the middle of the four-week Senate runoff, which was shortened from nine weeks by the new Georgia voting law passed last year. The only Saturday in the early voting period comes just after Thanksgiving.
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