Not long after that announcement, civil rights groups filed a lawsuit that listed three plaintiffs who said they didn’t receive absentee ballots after submitting requests.

Georgia's Supreme Court reversed a lower court's ballot extension in the swing state Monday, ruling that 3,000 absentee ballots -- sent out late in Cobb County -- will only be counted if they are rece

Cobb County election workers can only count absentee ballots received by 7 p.m. on Election Day, the Georgia Supreme Court ruled Monday.The ruling came after two civil rights groups, the American Civil Liberties Union and the Southern Poverty Law Center,