One other enormous win in Georgia!
The Georgia Supreme Court docket on Monday reversed a decrease courtroom’s resolution and blocked Democrat-run Cobb County from counting 3,000 absentee ballots after Election Day.
As beforehand reported, a decide dominated on Friday that Cobb County Georgia voters who obtained absentee ballots late can settle for them till November 8, three days after the election.
No less than 1,000 of the absentee ballots despatched out late final week in Cobb County went to out-of-state voters.
The Republican Nationwide Committee (RNC) appealed the decide’s resolution and the Georgia Supreme Court docket sided with them and blocked Cobb County from counting the ballots after election day.
“Democrat-run Cobb County needed to simply accept 3,000 absentee ballots AFTER the Election Day deadline. We took this case to the Georgia Supreme Court docket,” RNC Chairman Mike Whatley mentioned on Monday.
“We simply obtained phrase that we WON the case. Election Day is Election Day — not the week after,” Whatley mentioned.
HUGE election integrity victory in Georgia.
Democrat-run Cobb County needed to simply accept 3,000 absentee ballots AFTER the Election Day deadline. We took this case to the Georgia Supreme Court docket.
We simply obtained phrase that we WON the case. Election Day is Election Day — not the week…
— Michael Whatley (@ChairmanWhatley) November 4, 2024
WSBTV reported:
The Georgia Supreme Court docket dominated late Monday that the extension granted by Cobb County that would influence hundreds of mail-in voters has been reversed.
The ruling from the courtroom reversed a decrease decide’s ruling that had granted 3,000 voters an extension of the mail-in-ballot deadline after Cobb County election officers admitted they missed the deadline to ship them out. The deadline for mail-in ballots to be obtained in Georgia is election day — however the decrease decide had given these voters an extension for them to be postmarked by election day and obtained by Nov. 8, the identical deadline for abroad ballots.
The Republican Nationwide Committee appealed the ruling, saying it was a violation of the election code and that voters nonetheless had different methods they might vote, together with in particular person.
The Georgia Supreme Court docket ordered the Cobb board to “preserve separate” the absentee ballots of these voters which might be obtained after the deadline on election day however earlier than Nov. 8 “in a safe, protected, and sealed container separate from different voted ballots.
