No wonder the Georgia GOP tried to axe early voting opportunities. Georgians are turning out in record numbers to cast ballots in the Dec. 6 runoff between incumbent U.S. Senator Raphael Warnock and Herschel “No Lie is Too Big” Walker.
News outlets have reported on the huge number of voters who stood in lines for hours and voted over the holiday weekend. A total of 180,000 votes were cast -- about 2.6% of the total active voter base in Georgia.
Then Monday arrived, and the hits just kept coming. Monday’s voter turnout shattered all records for one-day early voting in Georgia; more than 239,160 voted.
A U.S .News & World Report article says the early voting trend may very well benefit Warnock. As writer Susan Milligan states, “The youngest Georgia voters are showing up in high numbers in early voting ahead of the Dec. 6 runoff for the Senate seat there, a trend that is expected to help incumbent Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock as he fends off a challenge from GOP nominee Herschel Walker.”
Younger voters say they are motivated by body autonomy threats – such as anti-transgender policies and abortion restrictions.
Keon Blair, New Georgia Project chief of field and organizing said that the narrative that younger voters aren’t casting ballots is false. “They keep showing up,” Blair said.
And Walker’s response to the political engagement of Gen Z? He has jumped again off the deep end of bizarre statements, saying that people born after 1990 haven’t earned the right to try to change the country. He used the old “love it or leave it” card hurled against anti-war protesters in the 1960s, saying “they should leave (the U.S.) and lose their citizenship.”
I guess the more things change, the more they remain the same.
