“The deadline for some residentsĀ of Cobb County, Georgia, to return their mail-in ballots was extended by a judge on Monday after election officials failed to send out ballots to 1,036 people who requested them,” Fox News reports.
Some of the affected voters filed a lawsuit asking for an extension after election officials admitted that the mistake was due to an error on their part.
“This is an important result for these Cobb County voters, who through no fault of their own did not receive theĀ absentee ballotsĀ to which they were legally entitled,” Jonathan Topaz, an attorney at the American Civil Liberties Unionās Voting Rights Project, said in a statement.
Georgia judge extends deadline for some Cobb County voters who never received their mail-in ballots https://t.co/BGRHB4tyQX
— Fox News (@FoxNews) November 8, 2022
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Georgia voters who were never mailed their absentee ballots have filed a lawsuit asking a judge to require Cobb County to send ballots by overnight mail and extend the state's deadline to return them. The lawsuit was filed by the ACLU of Georgia and Southern Poverty Law Center.
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) November 7, 2022
šØBREAKING: Georgia judge extends ballot receipt deadline for over 1,000 Cobb County absentee voters after the county failed to send their ballots on time. Affected voters will have their ballots counted if postmarked by Election Day & received by Nov. 14. https://t.co/z6tmfJzBHs
— Democracy Docket (@DemocracyDocket) November 7, 2022
Cont. from Fox News:
About 250 of the 1,036 voters who requested a ballot but never received it had already voted in person during early voting. The lawsuit said that many of the others may not be able to vote without the extension.
Ballots were being sent out through UPS overnight delivery on Monday.Ā Voters affectedĀ by the error will still have their ballots counted as long as they are postmarked by 7:00 p.m. on election day and arrive by Nov. 14.
Madison Cook, a Cobb County resident who goes to school at Mississippi State University, was one of the voters affected by the election officials’ mistake.
“I have done everything I can to stay in contact with Cobb County to figure out where my ballot is, but I was barely able to get through to them, until they told me it was too late to mail another ballot,” Cook said in a statement through ACLU Georgia before the deadline was extended.
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