North Gwinnett News

Reelection campaign officials for U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA) have filed suit in the Superior Court of Fulton County seeking to have early voting allowed in the days leading up to his runoff race against Republican candidate Herschel Walker.

This move comes alongside the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and the Democratic Party of Georgia, who joined the "Warnock for Georgia" campaign in filing the lawsuit, according to a recent report by FOX 5 Atlanta.

"Illegal attempts to block Saturday voting are another desperate attempt by career politicians to squeeze the people out of their own democracy and to silence the voices of Georgians,"  Quentin Fulks, Warnock for Georgia Campaign Manager, told FOX 5 Atlanta.

As part of the suit filed in the Superior Court of Fulton County, Warnock campaign officials and others accused so-called "career politicians" of seeking to "squeeze the people out of their own democracy and to silence the voices of Georgians."

According to the report, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) has already moved to challenge the suit, saying, "If recent elections prove one thing, it’s that voters expect candidates to focus on winning at the ballot box -- not at the courthouse."

Across the state, current law establishes that Saturday early voting will always be prohibited if a holiday falls within two days of it. In this case, that would be Thanksgiving on Thursday, Nov. 24, and a holiday that used to observe Confederate General Robert E. Lee's birthday on Friday, Nov. 25. The actual election will be held Tuesday, Dec. 6.