Chatham County’s voter registration office said Friday that some absentee ballots issued for next month’s elections were lost in the mail, adding that it was “actively working” to remedy what the office’s supervisor termed a “technical error.”
The public acknowledgement comes 12 days before elections that are expected, due to low voter turnout, to be decided by razor-thin margins. It is also likely to fuel pressure, beginning with President Donald Trump and including Georgia’s State Election Board, to scrap most — if not all — forms of mail-in voting in the state and nationwide.
What happened to the missing ballots still isn’t known.
CHECK YOUR BALLOT
- For questions or to confirm your absentee ballot status, please contact the Chatham County Voter Registration Office at 912-790-1520 or email [email protected].
To process absentee ballots for the Nov. 4 election, Chatham’s voter registration office hired a third-party vendor in Raleigh, North Carolina, to print the ballots and transfer the stuffed and labeled envelopes to the U.S. Postal Service for delivery to voters who applied for them. Why the voter registration opted for an out-state vendor over a Georgia firm one isn’t clear…