The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Southern Poverty Law Center sued a Georgia county on Friday, over allegations that it failed to send out approximately 3,000 absentee ballots by a requested deadline.
Georgia state law allows voters to request absentee ballots up until 11 days before the election, but they must be returned by Election Day. In the lawsuit, the civil rights groups asked a judge to extend the ballot deadline by three days, to Nov. 8.
Cobb County said it did not anticipate so many absentee ballot requests this year, after the requests surged to 750 per day in the final week, according to Reuters. There were also 985 requests submitted on the Oct. 25 deadline alone.
“Unfortunately, we were unprepared for the surge in requests and lacked the necessary equipment to process the ballots quickly,” Cobb County Board of Elections Chairwoman Tori Silas told the outlet. […]
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