Georgia judges hand down decisions in mail-in ballot cases
Two Georgia judges handed down rulings in election cases regarding mail-in ballots.
Judge Robert Flournoy ordered to extend the deadline to return mail-in ballots for approximately 3,200 Cobb County voters whose ballots were sent out late.
Cobb County previously said that "a surge of absentee ballot applications …..combined with an equipment failure” had caused a delay in sending out over 3,000 absentee ballots by the deadline. A lawsuit was filed and backed by the Democratic National Committee.
The affected voters must now postmark their ballots by 7 p.m. on Election Day and be received by the county by 5 p.m. on Nov. 8 — the same deadlines for overseas ballots, according to the ruling.
All ballots must now be sent immediately with express shipping and overnight return envelope, the judge ordered.
On Saturday morning, a Fulton County judge rejected a GOP lawsuit filed overnight that was seeking to prevent voters from hand-returning their mail-in ballots this weekend.
The lawsuit from Georgia Republicans was filed late Friday night and accused Fulton County of violating election laws by allowing voters to return their ballots in person after the early voting ended.
-ABC News' Olivia Rubin









