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BumRushDaShow

(143,318 posts)
Fri Nov 1, 2024, 03:15 PM Nov 1

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 Georgia’s third-largest county said they’re 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 state’s active voters, had been cast, according to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger’s office. The tally includes more than 226,000 absentees

Read more: https://apnews.com/article/georgia-absentee-ballots-cobb-county-3000-7c0d427ff75ea1c9946e8876970530bd

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Georgia county says more than 3,000 absentee ballots being mailed late just days before election (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Nov 1 OP
Wrong title? It was titled something about Jennifer Lopez at first nt Quixote1818 Nov 1 #1
It's fixed - I have been getting a nightmarish amount of delay on DU. BumRushDaShow Nov 1 #2
EarlG is on it but... quaint Nov 1 #4
Yeah I know BumRushDaShow Nov 1 #6
I thought it was just my phone acting up. BlueKota Nov 1 #5
I know the guys are working on it BumRushDaShow Nov 1 #7
Thank you! BlueKota Nov 1 #9
Cobb is a Blue County! NGeorgian Nov 1 #3
Easy solution: mail a ballot to every registered voter during the first week of October. Hermit-The-Prog Nov 1 #8
Another solution...absolutely do not trust your ballot to the mail ever ever again PortTack Nov 1 #10
I understand that feeling. I will vote in person on Tuesday because of living in a MAGAt majority county. Hermit-The-Prog Nov 1 #11
I think ReRe Nov 2 #12

BumRushDaShow

(143,318 posts)
6. Yeah I know
Fri Nov 1, 2024, 04:09 PM
Nov 1

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.

BumRushDaShow

(143,318 posts)
7. I know the guys are working on it
Fri Nov 1, 2024, 05:29 PM
Nov 1

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!

ReRe

(10,838 posts)
12. I think
Sat Nov 2, 2024, 08:35 AM
Nov 2

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.

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