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BumRushDaShow

(143,378 posts)
Mon Nov 4, 2024, 07:15 PM Nov 4

Georgia high court says absentee ballots must be returned by Election Day, even in county with delay

Source: AP

Updated 6:13 PM EST, November 4, 2024


ATLANTA (AP) — Thousands of voters in Georgia’s third-largest county who received their absentee ballots late will not get an extension to return them, the state’s highest court decided on Monday. Cobb County, just north of Atlanta, didn’t mail out absentee ballots to some 3,400 voters who had requested them until late last week. Georgia law says absentee ballots must be received by the close of polls on Election Day.

But a judge in a lower court ruled last week that the ballots at issue could be counted if they’re received by this Friday, three days after Election Day, as long as they were postmarked by Tuesday. The Georgia Supreme Court ruling means the affected Cobb County residents must vote in person on Election Day, which is Tuesday, or bring their absentee ballots to the county elections office by 7 p.m. that day.

The high court ruling instructs county election officials to notify the affected voters by email, text message and in a public message on the county election board’s website. And it orders officials to keep separate and sealed any ballots received after the Election Day deadline but before 5 p.m. Friday.

Board of elections Chair Tori Silas said the board will comply with the Supreme Court order, but it’s still up in the air whether ballots received after Election Day will be counted. The order only addressed a motion for a stay, so election officials will have to wait for the court’s final ruling to see whether votes received after Tuesday will be counted, she said in a statement.

Read more: https://apnews.com/article/georgia-mail-absentee-ballots-cobb-county-voting-9cfad0c169df34be01fb3f173c00ac7e

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Georgia high court says absentee ballots must be returned by Election Day, even in county with delay (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Nov 4 OP
Outrageous! Legal AF pat_k Nov 5 #1
Will this be appealed? Polybius Nov 5 #2

pat_k

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1. Outrageous! Legal AF
Tue Nov 5, 2024, 05:37 PM
Nov 5

After election officials just contacted voters to let them know they just needed postmarked 11/5, as per trial court.

F-ing outrageous!

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