Voters whose ballots have a missing or invalid signature are given three days to go to the elections office in person and correct the problem. “I don't want to get there and then they hold me up at the line saying they can't do this and they can't do that. Polk County reported an almost 13-fold increase from the number of rejected ballots it received in the 2018 general election to this year’s primary. GPB is committed to bringing you comprehensive news coverage from Georgia, across the country and around the world. There have been multiple questions and concerns about these mailings. The Johnsons said they considered voting in person but after seeing the long lines on Election Day and people not wearing masks, they were glad they didn’t. Her ballot was rejected on June 12 for coming back too late. “[The election] is not going to be fair unless all of the votes get counted.”, Denise Reid, a Cobb voter whose health did not allow her to vote in person, said she was “really, really upset.”, “It took me three days to fill my ballot out,” she said.
Elections Chief: More Polls, Training, Tech Support Needed To Avoid November Meltdown. HOUSTON COUNTY, Ga. — There’s less than a month left before the November election and one Houston County woman says she was given a ballot she didn’t request. United States, © Copyright 2020, Georgia Public Broadcasting. Royston said mail is delivered to a centralized county mailroom before being distributed to different departments, and said voters concerned about mailing in their ballot by the deadline can also take advantage of secure drop boxes located around the county. Monday on Political Rewind , it is the beginning of a weird week for Georgia, the rest of the country and the rest of the world. In addition to 727 late ballots, Cobb County also rejected 236 ballots for missing signatures and 95 for invalid signatures. Fulton County, Georgia’s most populous, reported no late ballots, but officials said in a follow-up interview the number was actually 951. While a record 1.1 million Georgians voted by mail in this year’s June 9 primary, thousands more ballots were not counted because they came in after the Election Day deadline.
Humphries said although he heard about problems with the June primary, including balky new machines, lack of poll workers and long lines, he feels in-person voting is the better option. IN-DEPTH: Fulton, State Chart Path Forward To Fix Election Issues. More than 647,000 absentee ballot requests had been accepted through Tuesday, according to state data. “If you’re going to mail it, the sooner the better, and if you’re going to drop it off, it needs to be in by 7 p.m. on Election Day,” Royston said. Since Perry wants to vote in person instead of filling out and returning her absentee ballot, Holland says she’ll have to take one extra step when she votes. In both the 2016 and 2018 general elections, the county also reported zero ballots received after the deadline. Gwinnett voter Michelle Black was surprised to learn her ballot had been rejected. Eric recently graduated from Emory University with a Bachelor's degree in Political Science and Statistics. The timely return and processing of absentee ballots has become a hot-button issue nationwide as the coronavirus continues to alter the way we vote. “I would think that if they are to count mail-in ballots, they should count as long as they were sent out on time, not whether or not they were received on time.”. She said she returned it by overnight mail through the U.S. postal service on June 8, and tracking information reviewed by GPB News and the News Lab shows the ballot delivered at 9:29 a.m. on Election Day. “I get that that is when they finally got to it, but it was sent next-day for delivery on Tuesday,” Black said. She says the last time she requested a ballot was during the June primary. The city uses paper ballots and doesnt forsee switching to the new sytem because the machines are not given to municipalities for special elections. People everywhere are... 260 14th St. NW As coronavirus continues to spread in communities across Georgia, elections officials are grappling with the challenge of running a safe, fair and... Two months before Election Day, one in nine Georgia voters have already applied to vote by mail. “I sent it back when they said to send it back, and I don’t know what more I could do to get it there before the deadline,” Hillier said. For Perry and other people who plan on voting in person, early voting begins next week. “If a voter is 65 years of age or older, or they’re physically disabled, they can do a request and it would be good for one year, so one election cycle,” said Holland. “This is very disappointing,” said Gwinnett voter Kenneth Scott. Out of 159 counties in Georgia, 49 reported receiving zero ballots after the 7 p.m. Election Day deadline. RELATED: Breaking Down The 1.1 Million Votes Already Cast In Georgia’s June 9 Primary. The secretary of state’s office said in a statement that while not required, it is best practice for late ballot rejections to be entered into the state’s system and that the law required those voters to be notified. The bulk of the rejected ballots came in the state’s largest counties in metro Atlanta area. Eric Fan is a Dow Jones News Fund intern working with the Georgia New Lab, where he specializes in investigative reporting and data Journalism. Fulton County Registration Chief Ralph Jones Sr. said the county sent letters to voters saying their ballots were rejected, but did not record those ballots in the state’s ElectioNet reporting system.
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