Error On Ballot Form Sent By Abrams Campaign Sparks Questions And Response

Errors were found on forms sent out by the campaign of Democrat Stacey Abrams for those Georgia voters who may want to request absentee ballots. However, the Georgia Secretary of State’s office and the Democratic Party of Georgia said the errors would not keep potential voters from receiving absentee ballots if they requested them. Abrams faces Republican Secretary of State Brian Kemp in the Georgia race for governor.

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Errors on forms for requesting absentee ballots that were sent to 30,000 potential Georgia voters by the campaign of Democrat Stacey Abrams are leading to questions from county election officials and threaten to confuse administrators ahead of the November midterms.

But over the weekend, the Georgia Secretary of State’s office said it would issue a bulletin to county election officials advising them to essentially ignore the error and process the requests for absentee ballots as normal.

And the Democratic Party of Georgia said by the end of the day Friday it had contacted more than half of the 159 counties in the state, and the errors would not keep any potential voters from receiving absentee ballots if they requested them.