Georgia county says more than 3,000 absentee ballots being mailed late just days before election
Source: AP
Updated 1:17 PM EDT, November 1, 2024
MARIETTA, Ga. (AP) Election officials in Georgias third-largest county said theyre late in mailing more than 3,000 absentee ballots to voters just a few days before the election. Election officials in Cobb County north of Atlanta were using U.S. Postal Service express mail and UPS overnight delivery in an effort to deliver the ballots on time. Mail-in ballots must be returned by Election Day on Tuesday in order to be counted.
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. The late absentee ballots were being mailed with prepaid express return envelopes, which election officials said would ensure they could be returned on time.
Georgia voters have shattered early turnout records since advance voting began Oct. 15. As of Thursday, more than 3.6 million ballots, reflecting more than half the states active voters, had been cast, according to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffenspergers office. The tally includes more than 226,000 absentees
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Quixote1818
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(3,605 posts)frustration!
BumRushDaShow
(143,318 posts)Every OP I post gives a Gateway error (just did one a second ago that generated the error). But I know it does actually post so I just leave it and won't try to do it again.
BlueKota
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(143,318 posts)and then couple that with increased user traffic (including general non-member lurkers) due to the upcoming election and it makes things trickier to diagnose!
BlueKota
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(36,600 posts)PortTack
(34,746 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(36,600 posts)the State of Georgia needs to set the deadline date back to at least a week earlier.
And what's up with the "faulty equipment"? Don't they do a quality check on their equipment
in advance of the election? If so, then replace the damn equipment!
But. If it's a known BLUE county, those absentee ballots will get in by Nov 5th, 2024.