Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger defended four blue Atlanta-area counties that opened election offices over the weekend to accept straggling absentee ballots, but he said Fulton County, in particular, should have communicated about it better.
Raffensperger, a Republican, said he thought Gwinnett County election officials handled the process more transparently because they decided over the summer that their county would extend absentee ballot acceptance.
Fulton County, a Democratic stronghold and the most populous county in the state, was, on the other hand, “relatively late,” Raffensperger said.
“What I will say is our policy has been we’d like to know what the rules are up front,” he said. “We’d like people to have consistency, and Gwinnett County was receiving absentee ballots, they had people at their offices, but they had made that decision…
