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Judge Rewrites Georgia Law to Favor Warnock – The American Spectator | USA News and Politics

By Thomas A. Smith

At issue was a 2016 statute that prohibits early voting on the second Saturday before a runoff if it follows a legal holiday occurring on the Thursday or Friday immediately preceding such second Saturday. The Elias lawsuit argued that the law applies only to primary and general elections, despite six references to runoffs in its text. Last Friday, Fulton County Superior Court Judge Thomas Cox ruled in favor of Warnock, finding that the law does not explicitly prohibit counties from conducting advance voting on Saturday, November 26, 2022.

via spectator.org

Just another mysterious mystery of language, seen through the prism, or one of many, or perhaps several, of the deeply mysterious hermeneutics that govern our lives. And the judge was no doubt appointed by a Democrat.