Georgia Election Board Approves Ballot Drop Boxes For June

Georgia’s state election board on Wednesday approved a new rule allowing counties to establish absentee ballot drop boxes for the state’s June primary elections amid the coronavirus pandemic.

State election officials have sent absentee ballot request forms to 6.9 million active registered voters, and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger has encouraged as many people as possible to vote by mail.

But some voting rights groups say that requiring voters to provide their own postage during the virus outbreak is an unconstitutional barrier to the right to vote. A lawsuit filed last week by the American Civil Liberties Union asks a judge to order that prepaid postage be provided.