‘Disgusting’: Donald Trump’s Team Blocks Voters from Casting Ballots In Same Georgia County That Flipped for Joe Biden In 2020 Election By Demanding Court Shorten Deadline 

Late-breaking Republican efforts to block absentee mail-in votes from being counted in Georgia in state and federal lawsuits have divided state judges and elections officials over the past few days. In a win for former President Donald Trump on Monday, the Georgia Supreme Court ruled that Cobb County may only count absentee ballots received by 7 p.m. on Election Day, reversing a ruling by a Cobb County judge on Saturday that had extended the deadline for returning ballots for three more days, reported Reuters. An election worker is seen outside of an early voting location in Cobb County, Georgia on October 31, 2024. (Photo by Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty Images) Cobb County Superior Court Judge Robert Flournoy had extended the deadline for returning absentee ballots for a group of voters impacted by a delay by the county in mailing out the ballots. After a late surge of absentee ballot applications, the Cobb Board of Elections announced last Thursday it had failed to mail out all requested ballots in the required three-day turnaround time mandated by state law. Despite the county’s effort to catch up by express mailing the ballots with prepaid express return envelopes late last week, more than 3,000...