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The Rev. Jeffrey A. Packard at his church, St. Andrewâs Episcopal Church, in State College on Tuesday, Nov. 24. Packard grew up in State College and attended St. Andrewâs where he now serves as rector.
Dwindling daylight shimmers through the stained glass and onto the pews of St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in State College on a Sunday in late autumn as the sun sets on its 5 p.m. service
Congregants shuffle in and take their seats quietly under the towering ceiling. The 112-year-old church can hold several hundred people, but it won’t today.
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Ramis Banuri voted for the first time this year. The 18-year-old Emory University student said it was important he did it in Georgia.
“I’ve grown up with a bunch of different people telling me, ‘Your vote never matters yada yada yada,’” Banuri says. “But I think that this was a unique moment in which my and everyone else’s singular vote in Georgia really did make the difference.”
President-elect Joe Biden eked out a win in the state by just under 12,000 votes.
As early voting is underway in two U.S. Senate runoffs, advocates want to make sure Georgia’s Muslims cast their ballots.