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| Georgia election officials sued for failing to mail absentee ballots on time, | |
| 2024-11-03 | |
Plaintiffs and more than 3,000 other lawfully registered Cobb County voters are on the brink of disenfranchisement in the November 5 election because the Cobb County Board of Elections and Registration was unable to issue their absentee ballots on time, a complaint reads from the American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU of Georgia and Southern Poverty Law Center, which was filed on Friday in Cobb County Superior Court. “This occurred twice in 2022, and in both instances, this Court granted judicial relief to protect the affected voters’ fundamental right to vote,” notes the DNC and DPG in a separate complaint filed Friday, which was first posted by Democracy Docket. “In this instance, the Cobb County Board of Elections failed to timely send more than 3,000 absentee ballots in accordance with Georgia law. Cobb County has publicly admitted to missing the statutory deadline. Judicial relief is thus required to remedy this legal violation and prevent disenfranchisement.” Both lawsuits argue that Cobb County election officials violated state law by failing to send mail-in ballots within three days to voters who made absentee ballot requests before the statewide deadline. The suits outline how Atlanta suburb’s Board of Elections publicly admitted on Oct. 31 that it had not sent the aforementioned ballots on time, nearly a week after the Oct. 25 deadline. For both suits filed against the county, the involved parties are asking that Cobb County’s Board of Elections extend the ballot-receipt deadline for all of the affected voters — moving it from Nov. 5 to Nov. 8, which is the same deadline that overseas voters have to return their ballots. They also ask that the county be required to segregate any of the affected ballots received after 7 p.m. on Election Day to ensure that they don’t become subject to “post-election legal challenges,” according to DNC and DPG officials. Cobb, according to U.S. News, is one of the top counties to watch in the 2024 presidential election as it continues to be a pivotal piece of political real estate in Georgia — a major battleground state. Shifts in racial and ethnic diversity have flipped the county from red to blue in the past two elections after Mitt Romney won in 2012. | |
| Posted by:NN2N1 |
| #4 Huh, just like the DoD. Bet the prisons and sanctuary cities got enough. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2024-11-03 12:32 |
| #3 BTW: If you're wondering about the make up of the Cobb County Board Of Elections NOTE: By WHOM or What they were APpointed to the Board. |
| Posted by: NN2N1 2024-11-03 12:10 |
| #2 ...once again, its because of the judiciary playing games. 'You have to show injury' to bring the case. Problem is that when you can, its beyond addressing the problem. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2024-11-03 08:57 |
| #1 Has anyone else noticed the pattern? The swamp things are proactive and the GOP re-active. That is they're always a beat behind the the tempo. |
| Posted by: Helmuth, Speaking for Cloter9531 2024-11-03 08:45 |
