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ATLANTA 鈥� Delays of 30 or more days to receive mail-in absentee ballots 鈥� regardless of whether voters mailed their application using the U.S. Postal Service or via email 鈥� are completely unacceptable. By law, elections officials are required to process absentee ballot applications within three days.

One reason for the 30+ day delay is that the Secretary of State chose an Arizona company as the primary vendor to print and mail those ballots back to Georgia some 1,800 miles away. At last week鈥檚 Fulton County board of elections meeting, Director Richard Barron characterized as excessive the amount of time that Runbeck, the out-of-state vendor, is taking to process Georgia ballots.

鈥淚n good faith and a timely manner, have sent in their applications for an absentee ballot. We have been contacted by numerous citizens who have said that they have yet to receive their ballots. It is unacceptable to use a vendor in Arizona 鈥� 1,800 miles away 鈥� that results in failing to deliver ballots in a timely manner,鈥� said Andrea Young, executive director of the 老澳门开奖结果 of Georgia. 鈥淭he state of Georgia should agree to accept ballots that are postmarked the day of the election to protect our sacred right to vote.鈥�

Young also recommends that the vendor overnight the ballots to Georgia which can then be delivered locally, because time is of the essence.