Judge Orders Georgia County Election Board to Extend Absentee Ballot Deadline

Cobb County failed to send absentee ballots on time to approximately 3,240 voters who can now use prepaid express mail to return them by Nov. 8.

Election officials sort ballots during an audit in Marietta, Ga., on Nov. 13, 2020. Mike Stewart/AP Photo

A judge ordered a Georgia election board to rectify a failure to mail more than 3,000 absentee ballots on time.

The judge issued the order on Friday afternoon, Nov. 1, in response to a complaint filed that morning by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) on behalf of voters who requested emergency injunctive relief.