July 7, 2020
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.
According to the state’s absentee voting records, more than 11,000 mail-in ballots were rejected this cycle, and 8,479 were received after polls closed, about 0.74% of the total absentee ballots returned.
This is the story behind those numbers and a conversation with voters who had their ballots rejected.
Read the story on GPB here.
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