#georgia runoffs

[fangirlofall]

Y’all IK we won the senate and it’s definitely important to celebrate, but if you’re in Georgia please, please, please vote in the runoff on December 6.

If we can get 51 instead of an exact tie it will give us a little wiggle room. For the past two years, a lot of the improvements Biden has attempted to make haven’t made it passed the Senate because one or two Democrats voted no and that was all it took; if we can get Georgia too, one Democrat can vote no and the legislation will still pass. The more seats we have the better chance we have for serious, meaningful change.

Please vote December 6th.

#senate #vote #Georgia #election #election 2022 #american election #Georgia runoff #runoff #runoff elections #democrat #ralph warnock #warnock #raphael warnock

[stevensavage]

Help with the Georgia Runoff!  Beat Walker!

Let's get to the Georgia Runoff!  Want to help Warnock beat Walker?  Here's just a FEW things to do! PHONE OR TEXT BANKING: https://act.surj.org/a/ga-runoff PHONEBANKING: https://events.democrats.org/event/543693/ PHONEBANKING "TEA" https://www.mobilize.us/massachusettsdemocrats2ndmiddlesex/event/543420/ (Every Sunday until 12/6) TEXTBANKING:  https://www.mobilize.us/mobilize/event/540617/

#georgia #georgia runoffs #warnock #raphael warnock #election 2022

[kyrianne]

[Image ID: A series of screenshots from a Twitter thread by Jason Coupet / professajay.

Text begins: Man voting in Georgia is so different than in Illinois. When I lived in chicago, during early voting, I went to the local elementary school, waited in line about ten minutes, and they gave me a sheet of paper. I checked people off then I put it in the machine and left.

Not Georgia. We drove downtown because *every* other polling place had a line >90 minutes. We paid ten bucks to park. We went in the building, then emptied out pockets to go through a metal detector. We then saw a sign about where to park to get our parking validated. Inside.

We then waited in line ~80 minutes. We got to the end and we were given a form to fill out (?). We were told *not* to sign it until told. Then we were moved into a waiting room where we were given a ticket number, like when you are at the dmv.

We were told to get our IDs out and wait. We waited here for 15-20 minutes. When your number is called they took your form, did some stuff on the computer, then told you to sign the form. Then you get a little green card. You insert it into the machine.

Then you go through three or four prompts, including a very serious™️ warning about perjury, a totally necessary warning given how huge a problem stolen identity is for the purposes of voting on behalf of someone else.

You then finally vote, and after an “are you sure” prompt you get a sheet. You then have to walk the sheet over to feed it into a machine. About half of these were working.

The bottleneck was clearly the weird application and waiting room thing. There are two dozen people at a time sitting to have their stuffed checked. Think of it as regular voting except when you got there they had to run a credit check for *each person* like you need financing.

It was easier finishing my PhD paperwork. Thankful for the kind people (nearly all black women) the shepherded the processes. But man if you are poor or disabled or whatever, good luck yo. That should have been easier. We finished tho. Text ends.

Image ID: Two Black people are standing beside a city street and smiling at the camera, a man and a woman. The man has close-cropped hair and a beard. He is wearing a black hoodie that says Southside and has a sticker on his chest with a peach on it. The woman has large tortoiseshell browline glasses and long twist locs. She has a light brown leather crossbody bag, and is wearing a salmon-colored windbreaker. She also has a peach sticker on her chest, which she is pointing to. Her hand has a wedding ring. End ID]

#us politics #voting #georgia #georgia runoff #black twitter #voting while black #twitter #twitter thread #posting this here because I thought it was already #but couldn’t find it #and this kind of personal account is super important #this is a primary resource on how messed up voting is in Georgia

[spennythespoon]

Georgia Senate race really be like

Edit 12/07/2022: Hell Yeah Warnock won

#in all seriousness I'm glad the democrats did better than expected last night #the gop will probably take the house but hopefully not too big of a majority #and Pennsylvania voted blue for the senate!!! #also super happy that the state measures for abortion were pro choice - even in a state like Kentucky holy shit #also the night went bad for trump but went great for desantis #i hate them both though #its too close to call for Arizona and Nevada but hopefully the dems can get those seats and keep the senate #because id rather have incompetent dems than a gop that's literally a death cult and wants to murder lgbt people #us politics #bernie sanders #2022 midterm elections #Georgia #raphael warnock #herschel walker #republican copium #no red wave #kung pow penis #runoff elections

[iwriteaboutfeminism]

It was back and forth for most of the night, but Warnock is the projected winner!

#so glad we have election night results #raphael warnock #georgia #georgia runoff

[deadpresidents]

"Since the last time I was here, Mr. [Herschel] Walker has been talking about issues that are of great importance to the people of Georgia. Like whether it’s better to be a vampire or a werewolf. This is a debate that I must confess I once had myself. When I was seven. Then I grew up. In case you’re wondering, by the way, Mr. Walker decided he wanted to be a werewolf -- which is great! As far as I’m concerned he can be anything he wants to be, except for a United States Senator. This would be funny if he weren’t running for Senate.” 

-- Former President Barack Obama, on Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker, while campaigning on behalf of Rev. Raphael Warnock for Georgia’s U.S. Senate runoff election.

President Obama might be showing up frequently in Georgia as a surrogate for Reverend Warnock just because he’s having so much fun eviscerating Herschel Walker.

#Barack Obama #President Obama #Politics #Georgia Senate Runoff #Georgia Senate Election #U.S. Senate #Congress #Raphael Warnock #Herschel Walker #Rev. Warnock #Senator Warnock #Georgia #Georgia Politics #Georgia Election #Georgia Runoff

[qqueenofhades]

My mom, after I told her the news about Democrats holding the senate while we were out at dinner: "That’s great! [Long pause] It would be nice if Mitch McConnell died."

#xourviolentdelightsx #ask #politics for ts #she is NOT WRONG #anyway fuck yeah nevada! #time to win the georgia runoffs and really make some republicans sad!

[beggars-opera]

In a stunning upset that should surprise no one, the winner is...

#JEB #politics #georgia runoff #georgia #I worked very hard on this

[not-safe-for-democracy]

#rafael warnock #herschel walker #senate #georgia runoff

[whenweallvote]

🚨 Georgia Voters 🚨 If you aren't able to make it to the polls in-person, 𝗿𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗺𝗮𝗶𝗹-𝗶𝗻 𝗯𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘁 𝗡𝗢𝗪 at weall.vote/georgia and remember that your ballot must be received by your county registrar’s office no later than 7pm on December 6, 2022.

#GA #Georgia #Runoff

[redheadgleek]

Dems kept control of the Senate.

#a great relief #house is still up for grabs #us politics #they just called the nevada race #if warnock wins in the runoff in georgia #we'll be 51 to 49

[odinsblog]

Please do not let this fool get elected, Georgia

#politics #republicans #hershel walker #lol #georgia #runoff election #runoff elections

[autumngracy]

#us politics #Raphael Warnock #Herschel Walker #Georgia Runoff

[calliopechild]

Latest GOP bullshit update!

Because the GOP believes in nothing like they believe in voter suppression, the only Saturday that would have been within the early voting period for the Georgia runoff is now unavailable because of a. a law Georgia Republicans rammed through last year to cut runoff election periods in half and b. a ludicrous rule related to Georgia state holidays. That means that the early voting period is now limited only to Nov. 28 to Dec. 2, which--per GOP standard bullshit--of course makes things difficult for everyone, but especially for the groups most likely to vote Democrat.

So it is super important that if you live in Georgia and can vote, you do so--and check your options/available days now. Confirm your voting status, check and double-check your voting place and the available hours, and start planning now if you might need to vote early or if you can go on Election Day. Below is a link on voting rights in Georgia re: getting time off from work to vote.

https://faq.georgiavoter.guide/en/article/getting-time-off-work-to-vote

Losing the Georgia seat could cost the GOP the ability to deadlock progress there, so they are going to disenfranchise as many people and throw up as many extra barriers to voting as they can, because they know that’s the only way they can win. Spread the word so that anyone who was counting on a non-weekday voting day has enough advance notice to make new plans.

#signal boost #georgia runoff #november mid term elections #voting #PLEASE go blue again georgia #the gop is already throwing THE biggest tantrums over their 'red wave' not manifesting #imagine how many of them will lose their shit if we can get a senate lead in a midterm election year

[iwriteaboutfeminism]

You ever watch a stupid movie late at night, hopin' it gonna get better, it don't get better, but you keep watchin' it anyway? 'Cause the other night, the other night I was watching this movie. I was watching this movie called Fright Night, Freak Night, some kind of a night. But it was about vampires.

I don't know if you know, vampires are cool people. Are they not? But I'm gonna tell you something that I found out. A werewolf can kill a vampire. Do you know that? I never knew that. So I didn't want to be a vampire anymore, I wanted to be a werewolf.

But then anyway, as I'm watching this movie, and let me tell you how stupid it is, 'cause it's one in the morning. On my TV are these kids watchin' their TV, a vampire killed on their TV. So you know it's kinda stupid, but I'm still watchin' though.

As I'm watchin' this show, what was funny, these kids had a vampire in their attic at their house. So they were watchin' their TV, and I'm watchin' my TV, and they're watchin' their TV, and they see the vampire killed on their TV.

So they win this contest to bring this actor- now y'all gotta stay with me- bring this actor who's a vampire killer from that TV to get rid of this real life vampire in their attic.

So this actor comes to their home. He got all the right stuff. He got all the right stuff, because you know, gotta have the stake, gotta have the thing to kill 'em in the heart. And he got a necklace of garlic. 'Cause that work. I don't know what it does, but it work. Gotta have a cross 'cause it burns. I know that work.

And then all of a sudden, this what was so funny about it. As they're walkin' through the house, this guy's got the holy water, he's blessin' the house, this actor. Now he's all faith. He's blessin 'the house with his holy water.

And they walked upstairs, and this vampire, lookin' real good in this black suit, woah, that sounds like Senator Warnock, doesn't it? Lookin' all good in this black suit, floatin' from the ceiling. He floatin' from the ceiling lookin' good and cool.

And I'm thinkin' "Woah, they better get outta that house." If somebody floats from your ceiling, get outta that house. That's, that's not your house.

But as he floated from the ceiling, the kids jumped behind their hero. And they jumped behind their hero, this guy jumped in front of them with his holy water. Threw it in the vampire's forehead. He covered his eyes. Then he took his hands away. He started laughin'. .

And he said, "That don't work." He took the cross, he put it on the vampire forehead, and the vampire didn't even do anything. He said, "That don't work."

But that's the way it is in our life. It don't work unless you got faith. It is time for us to have faith. We gotta have faith in our fellow brother. We gotta have faith in this country. We gotta have faith in elected officials.

And right now, that's the reason I'm here.

Herschel Walker, Republican Senate Candidate from Georgia, November 16,2022. (source)

#herschel walker #georgia #georgia runoff #raphael warnock

[forourtimetoo]

I am once again thinking about how people in the north talk/think about the south and feeling really! Tired! Frustrated! Idk!

I’m doing repro justice work in Georgia this year and like. All the repro justice orgs here are ready for a fight when the legislative session starts. A big national repro rights org headquartered up north told me last week that they didn’t really believe we’d actually see legislators try to pass a new bill. I’m! So! Tired!

We’ve spent months working to get voter turnout up in the face of massive voter suppression, especially voter suppression of Black & Brown & low income people in Georgia, and the big message I’m hearing from northerners immediately after the senate runoff? “Wow embarrassing that it was still so close.” Shut UP have y’all seen NY this cycle!!!

Like I *get* it, people in blue states want to feel safe, y’all want to believe none of this could ever happen to you. You want to believe *your* state could never pass an abortion ban, an anti-trans law, a voter suppression law. You want to believe that *you’ll* be okay no matter what—you’ll always be able to get healthcare, you’ll never be prosecuted for an adverse pregnancy outcome, you’ll never lose someone in a nightclub shooting, you’ll be okay. And I hope you will be. But you have to fight for that. And we *are* fighting. So don’t write us off. Don’t act like we deserve what’s happening to us by virtue of where we live. Trust us, invest in us, work with us, and when y’all need help, don’t be afraid to ask us.

#georgia runoff #Nina rambles #Nina does repro #Nina does law stuff #politics #us politics #reproductive justice #reproductive rights #i am so tired #the south #the south deserves so much better #sometimes I think northerners should have to like do an exchange program before they’re allowed to talk about the south