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Georgia high court says absentee ballots must be returned by Election Day, even in county with delay
Georgia’s highest court has stayed a lower court ruling that would have allowed certain voters in the state’s third-largest county who received their absentee ballots late to return them after the deadline.
Cobb County won’t get extension to count absentee ballots despite mail delays, Ga. Supreme Court rules
Cobb County election workers can only count absentee ballots received by 7 p.m. on Election Day, the Georgia Supreme Court ruled Monday.The ruling came after two civil rights groups, the American Civil Liberties Union and the Southern Poverty Law Center,
How to track your absentee ballot
ATLANTA — It's a day before Election Day, and 343,833 absentee ballots were requested by Georgia voters, according to election turnout data from the Secretary of State's Office. So far, 254,175 have already been accepted meaning that about a third of mail-in ballots still need to be accounted for.
Georgia County Says Thousands of Absentee Ballots Being Mailed Late
Georgia's third-largest county said that thousands of absentee ballots are being mailed late before the November 5 election. Election officials in Cobb County, which is north of Atlanta, were using U.S. Postal Service express mail and UPS overnight delivery to send over 3,000 absentee ballots to voters on time.
Georgia county says more than 3,000 absentee ballots being mailed late just days before election
(AP) — 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 ...
Several metro Atlanta elections offices extend days for absentee ballot drop off
Metro Atlanta residents can drop off their absentee ballots over the weekend and on Monday before Election Day at their local election offices if they live in Fulton, Cobb, DeKalb and Gwinnett counties.
Thousands of Georgia Voters in Democratic County Might Not Have Ballots Counted
Georgia Supreme Court rules all absentee ballots must be received by the close of polls on Tuesday, despite a Cobb County error.
Republicans file federal lawsuit over some Georgia counties accepting hand-returned absentee ballots after end of early voting
ATLANTA — National and state Republicans filed a federal lawsuit to challenge several counties that opened elections offices over the weekend to accept hand-returned absentee ballots, in the wake of a judge rejecting a similar lawsuit in state court.
What happens to mail-in ballots if a voter dies? What to know about voting absentee
Absentee ballots are due to local election officials by 7 p.m. Nov. 5. Absentee ballots can only be turned in to county election officials by mail. Voters can choose between USPS, FedEX and UPS, but hand delivery is not allowed.
Georgia county ordered to extend counting of absentee ballots after lawsuit
A judge in the U.S. state of Georgia issued an order on Friday extending the deadline for the return and counting of absentee ballots after a county failed to promptly send out some 3,000 mail-in ballots for Tuesday's election that were requested by the deadline,
Election security updates: More non-credible bomb threats sent to Atlanta area
From the polling place to the courtroom, ABC News tracks the latest election security developments as experts warn about ...
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Georgia Supreme Court halts Cobb County extension of absentee ballot deadline
ATLANTA - The Georgia Supreme Court has stayed the current deadline to accept absentee ballots, following delays ...
Georgia GOP threatens lawsuit against deep-blue Fulton County over extended absentee voting
Republicans are threatening to sue Fulton County, Georgia after it and several other counties extended office hours for ...