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,” said Raffensperger in a news release on Wednesday. “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. ” Raffensberger said that in light of the CCP virus pandemic, “we need to reform our absentee ballot system.” His office pointed to a 2005 Georgia law that allowed for no-excuse absentee ballot voting, but it was used by between 5 percent and 7 percent of voters. But in the midst of the pandemic, that number grew significantly, putting extra strain on …