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. ” In light of the CCP virus pandemic, “we need to reform our absentee ballot system,” Raffensberger said. His office pointed to a 2005 Georgia law that allows for no-excuse absentee voting, which, for years, had been used by only between 5 percent and 7 percent of voters. However, that number grew significantly because of the pandemic, putting extra strain on the …