Fox News: Georgia judge says voters can hand in mail ballots in rejection of GOP lawsuit

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Georgia judge says voters can hand in mail ballots in rejection of GOP lawsuit

A Republican lawsuit in Georgia that claimed voters shouldn't be allowed to return absentee ballots once early voting ended on Friday has been rejected.......                    ...                        ...A judge You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login on Saturday dismissed a Republican lawsuit that sought to block voters from hand-returning mail-in ballots in the state over the weekend. ......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Logincentered around officials in Fulton County, a Democratic stronghold, opening normally closed country offices on Saturday and Sunday to allow voters to hand in their ballots. ......Five other Democratic-leaning counties in the state also announced that county offices would be open over the weekend. ......Early voting in Georgia ended on Friday and the lawsuit, filed Friday night, cited a section of state law that says ballot drop boxes cannot be open past the end of You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login. ......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login......But state law also states that voters can hand in mail ballots until the polls close on Tuesday night. ......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login......GOP lawyer Alex Kaufman argued in a Saturday emergency hearing that while it's OK to mail absentee ballots, they shouldn't be hand-delivered after early voting ends, but Fulton County Superior Court Judge Kevin Farmer rejected all of his arguments. ......"I find that it is not a violation of those two code sections for a voter to hand-return their absentee ballots," Farmer said.......A Fulton County spokesperson said on Saturday afternoon that only a couple dozen ballots had been returned to the four open county offices. ......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login......Former President Trump narrowly lost Georgia, a usually reliably Republican state, to President Biden by fewer than 12,000 votes in 2020, and afterward Trump made unsubstantiated accusations of fraud in Fulton County.......Both Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris have been actively campaigning in the state, now considered a battleground. ......The Associated Press contributed to this report. ...

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