Absentee ballots requested by a 1000 people and more were not sent out. Georgia County

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Supervisor says it was an error. CNN They are sending them out now. People being advised to show up to vote instead.

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1. Saw a breaking banner from them on this

They have it on a "live" link thing - https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/us-midterm-election-early-voting-11-05-2022/index.html

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Georgia county elections office mails hundreds of absentee ballots to voters just days before Election Day

From CNN’s Hannah Sarisohn, Jason Morris and Scott Bronstein

Over 1,000 absentee ballots in Cobb County, Georgia, are being mailed out Saturday morning, just days before Election Day, due to procedural errors in the elections office, the county election director told board members in a letter sent Friday night.

“Critical” mistakes were made on at least two days in October, where absentee ballots were requested but not created, according to the letter. The investigation determined that 1,046 requested absentee ballots were never mailed, according to county officials.

On Oct. 22, the elections office accepted 194 ballots; however, none of these ballots were mailed to voters, the letter said, as the daily file was not uploaded to the mailing machine, thus not creating the ballots.

In the letter, Cobb County spokesperson Ross Cavitt said the elections office printed these 194 ballots on Saturday morning and prepared them to be shipped out overnight by UPS. Earlier in the month on Oct. 13, the elections office accepted 1,227 ballots, but only 385 ballots were prepared manually and mailed out for elderly and disabled rollover voters, the letter said.

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2. Thank you.

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3. You're welcome

Wish they had a "standalone story" but I figured it was also reported elsewhere like here -

Over 1,000 absentee ballots never mailed to Cobb County voters


Politics
By Mark Niesse, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
6 hours ago


Cobb County election officials made a “critical error” and failed to mail over 1,000 absentee ballots to voters who had requested them, the county’s elections director said Friday night. Most of the voters who weren’t sent their ballots will now have to vote in person on Election Day if they want to participate in the election.

The county is mailing ballots by overnight delivery to out-of-state voters, but ballots will only be counted if they’re received back at the county’s elections office before polls close at 7 p.m., according to state law. Elections Director Janine Eveler wrote in an email to the county’s elections board Friday that election workers didn’t upload ballot information to a mailing machine, and ballots were never created nor sent on two days last month.

There were 842 ballots that were supposed to be mailed Oct. 13 and 194 ballots on Oct. 22. “I am so sorry that this office let these voters down,” Eveler wrote. “Many of the absentee staff have been averaging 80 or more hours per week and they are exhausted. Still, that is no excuse for such a critical error.”

Elections staff couldn’t produce an audit log or a list showing that those ballots had been created, packed or verified, Eveler wrote. She said a new supervisor likely didn’t reference or update procedures. Of the 1,036 voters who weren’t sent ballots, about 250 of them instead voted in-person during early voting, according to state election data.

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https://www.ajc.com/politics/georgia-election-2022-over-1k-absentee-ballots-never-sent-in-cobb/6C5SQEUUJ5FIPLLDKIOGMEB6QY/