What does the Law say when it comes to Absentee Ballots, received by Election Day or Postmarked on Election Day?
Whatever the Law says should be followed. If the Judge is ignoring the Law, we have a big problem.
Is there a link to Georgia Election Law to go along with this?
How about O.C.G.A. § 21-2-386 (a)(1)(F)?
All absentee ballots returned to the board or absentee ballot clerk after the closing of the polls on the day of the primary or election shall be safely kept unopened by the board or absentee ballot clerk and then transferred to the appropriate clerk for storage for the period of time required for the preservation of ballots used at the primary or election and shall then, without being opened, be destroyed in like manner as the used ballots of the primary or election. The board of registrars or absentee ballot clerk shall promptly notify the elector by first-class mail that the elector's ballot was returned too late to be counted and that the elector will not receive credit for voting in the primary or election. All such late absentee ballots shall be delivered to the appropriate clerk and stored as provided in Code Section 21-2-390.
absentee ballots...GA is probably like TN...
I did absentee for the Primary for the 1st time this year... here you can do absentee if you present yourself and fill in an application and say why...being over 60 is one reason...away from the county/state and where you will be is another...military over seas etc...
By law the ballots don’t go out until a certain date then I had about 2 weeks turn around time to mark it and send MAIL it in by a date that was about TWO weeks before the actual election day...not the postmark the RECEIVING day was the important one...BEFORE election day...
When I got back I went to the election commission and my name was on a list of people who successfully sent in their ballot...by the right date...there was the date they received it by my name...
Georgia absentee ballot deadlines...
In Person By Mail: 4 days before Election Day.
Online: Voted ballots are due: Election Day.