A Cobb County judge agreed to extend the absentee ballot return deadline during an emergency hearing Monday after Cobb Elections officials failed to send up to 1,036 ballots to voters in October, an initial investigation found.
“We know it wasn’t the voters’ fault, we know it wasn’t the post office’s fault,” said Daniel White, the attorney for the elections office. “This was an administrative error.
“We want to give everyone as much time as possible.”
Of the 1,036 voters who requested absentee ballots and could have been affected by the error, some canceled their absentee ballots and voted in person, and 716 have not yet voted, White said at a press conference after the hearing.
White added that the county overnighted ballots to most of those 716 voters, and will send the last 276 Monday night.