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Georgia's secretary of state opened an investigation into the Cobb County Board of Elections and registration's failure to mail more than 1,000 Absentee Ballots to Voters after two civil rights groups filed a lawsuit related to that situation.
Within hours of the investigation being announced, a lawyer for the plaintiffs in the lawsuit said that Cobb County agreed to extend the Absentee Ballot deadline.
All of Georgia's congressional districts and the governor's office are up for grabs in the election.
There is a statistical tie in the Senate race between incumbent Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock and Republican Herschel Walker. Which party controls the Senate will be decided by the contest.
The unmailed ballots were called unacceptable by the Secretary of State.
The office will refer the case to the state elections board.
The top election official in Georgia is one of the defendants in a lawsuit.
The lawsuit was filed by the American Civil Liberties Union and the Southern Poverty Law Center.
All voters whose applications for Absentee Ballots had been accepted had not been sent their Absentee Ballots in a timely fashion.
According to the suit, the Cobb Board failed to timely send Absentee Ballots to a number of voters.
Ballots marked on other dates were not timely processed or mailed.
Hundreds of voters in Cobb County are on the verge of losing their right to vote.
The suit asked a judge to order the election board to extend the receipt deadline for all Absentee ballots in the class of voters covered by the suit.
"Absent relief, these voters will not be able to participate in the November 8, 2022 general election despite properly Registering to Vote, requesting their Absentee Ballot by the Absentee Ballot Request deadline, and often contacting the Board multiple times on their own to find out about the status of their
A request for comment was not responded to by the board.
The board said that it opened a probe into the ballots after some residents reported not receiving them.
The elections and registration director blamed the situation on human error, with new staff not following procedures for two days to make sure ballots were mailed.
Eveler apologized to the board and said he was sorry.
She said that many of the Absentee staff have been working 80 or more hours a week. That isn't an excuse for such a critical error.
The election's staff overnighted Absentee ballots to 83 out-of-state addresses and included pre-paid return envelopes, according to the board.
More than 200 residents from that group requested ballots and they had already given them to them. Some residents in that group canceled their ballot requests and voted during advance voting. On election day, 498 residents are urged to cast their votes in person.
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