Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger’s office said election officials in the state are “overwhelmed” by “three parallel elections.”
“Asking county elections officials to hold no-excuse absentee ballot voting, in addition to three weeks of early, in-person voting, and Election Day voting is too much to manage,” Raffensperger said in a statement on Dec. 23. “The way Georgia’s election system is set up under law, county elections officials are essentially required to run three elections simultaneously, one each for a population that wants to vote a different way. “
