Officials in one of Georgia’s most diverse counties are improperly rejecting absentee ballots cast in the state’s nationally watched governor’s race, voting rights groups said.
Three hundred, ninety absentee ballots have been rejected in Gwinnett County — more than one-third of the total number of absentee ballots rejected across the state, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.
Voting rights groups this week filed two separate lawsuits in U.S. District Court in Atlanta against Republican Secretary of State Brian Kemp and the Gwinnett County elections board, calling for the rejected ballots to be reviewed and reinstated if possible.
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