On May 4, U.S. District Court Judge Timothy Batton ruled that Georgia must let voters register to vote in the special congressional election being held June 20. The new registration deadline is May 21. Georgia State Conference NAACP v State, n.d., 1:17cv-1397.
Georgia law won’t let new voters register in time for a runoff, if they hadn’t been registered in time for the initial election.
Interesting — the plaintiffs asked for a May 22 registration deadline, but a footnote in the court’s order says: “At oral argument, Defendants convincingly argued that the extended deadline should be May 21, 2017.” I wonder what the argument was that convinced the judge to shift the deadline from a *Monday* to a *Sunday*. . . .