Of the more than 1.3 million absentee ballots returned to county elections offices for the November election, more than 2,000 of them were rejected because of an invalid or missing signature.
That’s the same signature rejection percentage as the 2018 mid-term election in which more than a million fewer absentee ballots were submitted.
President Donald Trump on Thursday morning made a misleading claim that “almost ZERO ballots” were rejected in Georgia in the November election.
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