Court Extends Ballot Receipt Deadline For Some Georgia Voters In Key CountyTrevor Schakohl
Legal Reporter
November 07, 2022 9:01 PM ET
A court extended the absentee ballot return deadline Monday for some Cobb County, Georgia, voters after the county’s election board failed to send out more than 1,000 ballots on time.
The Cobb County Board of Elections and Registration had not sent absentee ballots to hundreds of voters who asked for them weeks earlier, despite a state legal requirement to do so within three days of processing an absentee ballot application, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and Dechert LLP’s said in a lawsuit. The Cobb County Superior Court extended the absentee ballot receipt deadline to Nov. 14 for all affected voters, which is also when uniformed and overseas voters’ ballots are due, according to a consent order.
Some Cobb County voters who requested absentee ballots have voted by other means, and the board mailed ballots to some of the still affected voters overnight, according to the court. It ordered that replacement absentee ballots be overnighted to still affected voters who had not yet been sent one.
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