MSNBC’s Joy Reid spread some fake news on the Tuesday edition of The ReidOut when she claimed that Georgia is preventing people from voting early in the state’s Senate runoff because state law requires that Robert E. Lee’s birthday be celebrated. In the real world, the holiday being observed is Thanksgiving.
Coming out of commercial break, Reid played a clip of Sen. Raphael Warnock decrying the move not to have early voting the Saturday after Thanksgiving, “We should be striving to give the people of Georgia fair access to the ballot box. We just saw an election in November where the people of Georgia made it clear that they want to use Saturday voting. Hundreds of thousands of voters, Georgia voters voted on Saturday. They have demonstrated what they want. And there's nothing in the law as it is currently written to prevent it.”