On Friday, a judge ruled that voters in Cobb County, Georgia, who received their absentee ballots late may submit them until November 8, three days following the election.
At least 1,000 of the absentee ballots sent out late this week in Cobb County went to out-of-state voters.
As reported by Newsmax:
Georgia’s third-largest county is running late in mailing more than 3,000 absentee ballots to voters just a few days before the election.
To deliver the ballots on time, election officials in Cobb County north of Atlanta were using U.S. Postal Service express mail and UPS overnight delivery, and sending the ballots with prepaid express return envelopes.
“We want to maintain voter trust by being transparent about the situation,” county Board of Elections Chairwoman Tori Silas said in a statement Thursday. “We are taking every possible step to get these ballots to the voters who requested them.”
Silas blamed the delay on faulty equipment and a late surge in absentee ballot requests during the week before the Oct. 25 deadline.
However, a judge ruled Friday that Cobb County voters receiving their absentee ballots late can return them by Nov. 8, three days after Election Day, as long as they’re postmarked by Tuesday, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.
The ruling came after the American Civil Liberties Union and the Southern Poverty Law Center filed a lawsuit seeking to extend the deadline.
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