Claiming this is due to “Robert E Lee’s birthday” is a complete red herring and disingenuous. Here’s what’s actually going on.
▪️In 2016, the Georgia legislature passed a bill which restricted early voting on Saturdays falling either on a holiday or following a holiday on Thursday or Friday.
https://www.legis.ga.gov/api/legislation/document/20152016/162401
▪️Next Saturday happens to follow 2 state holidays. Thanksgiving on Thursday, and a generic “State Holiday” on Friday. This used to be called “Robert E Lee’s Birthday” but was renamed in 2015. Lee’s birthday is actually on Jan 19, but Georgia traditionally celebrated it after Thanksgiving.
https://www.ajc.com/blog/politics/confederate-memorial-day-disappears-from-2016-georgia-holiday-calendars/ef2nD9pIa8itUbrEKhBbvL/
▪️Thus, even if Georgia abolished the “State Holiday” formerly known as Robert E. Lee’s birthday, the law still calls for the restriction because of Thanksgiving! The only reason to bring up Lee is to be disingenuous and misleading, without providing that context.
▪️The reason this is now an issue is because last year the Georgia legislature moved runoff elections to 4 weeks after Election Day instead of 9 weeks, which created the conflict. This even confused the Secretary of State, who initially said there would be Sat voting until his office realized the law prohibited it.
https://www.ajc.com/politics/georgia-holidays-prevent-saturday-voting-before-us-senate-runoff/Q7WG5X7T55AIJEJYLEOJ6JLQ6M/
▪️Democrats have sued Georgia, claiming that this law shouldn’t apply to runoffs, but for now the SoS has ordered no voting on the Sat following Thanksgiving per the law as written. We’ll see how the courts rule.
https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2022/nov/15/georgia-sued-over-ban-on-saturday-voting-before-us/
▪️There is still plenty of early voting opportunities, as well as absentee ballots and, of course, the normal election day voting for the runoff election. Just no early Saturday voting after Thanksgiving.
Just incredible. After posting a meme blaming Charlie Kirk for his own murder, they post another a few hours later applauding Democrats for their civility.
Also, if you look at the Occupy Democrats timeline, their posts “denouncing political violence” were variations on “no one should be shot…BUT here’s a quote from Kirk showing he’s a terrible person.” Or sometimes they’d leave the first part out altogether and just attack him. There are no posts denouncing violence without qualifiers trying to gin up their base.
It’s really incredible they’re trying this approach after 4 years of posting “Ridin’ with Biden” memes.
It’s funny to see the left use the same conspiratorial rhetoric as the right did a year ago regarding the jobs numbers being downwardly revised. So many on the right, who knew nothing of how the jobs numbers are calculated or why they revise them, were convinced the downward revisions were a conspiracy to help Biden win.
If people want to have a debate about the birth death model or the survey methods, ok, but that’s not what’s happening here. Most people are under the delusion that the BLS report is the govt reporting every job created and lost, and are thus easily swayed it’s rigged when it suits their political ends.
