ATLANTA — Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensberger is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to stop the Trump administration from using the U.S. Post Office to vet absentee ballots.
The order would give the postal service broad power to reject some mail-in ballots.
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Channel 2’s Richard Elliot said Raffensberger doesn’t want to argue whether it’s legal for the post office to vet those absentee ballots.
He says there just isn’t enough time for the post office to do it before the November midterms.
In a brief, Georgia’s secretary of state joins Democrats and Republicans in asking the high court to stop the Trump administration from having the U.S. Post Office to vet absentee ballots.
The objection is not because they think it’s illegal but because they say there’s just not enough time to do it before the November midterms.
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“Late changes breed confusion. That confusion keeps eligible voters from voting and that a chaotic election erodes confidence in the results,” the brief said.
“We weren’t debating the legal merits one way or the other. We just looked at the timeline,” Raffensperger said.
Elliot met Raffensperger inside the state warehouse that holds pallets of absentee ballots.
He says county elections office are already up against a hard deadline
“It just takes time to do these things, and that’s what we’re concerned about. Our counties are getting ready to run a big election. We know and understand how important it is,” Raffensperger said.
Not far away at the Windy Hill Road Post Office in Marietta, Channel 2 Action News asked people what they thought of the plan to require the post office vet absentee ballots.
Like Raffensperger, Lachesica Evans didn’t think there was enough time.
“So it’s kind of difficult for the, to get that done, in what? Two months?” Evans said.
But Peter Marx thinks if the post office can do it, then they ought to.
“if somebody can do something to help alleviate some of the problems that are inherent in this system we’ve got, and the post office can do some of that,” Marx said.
This brief was written by two Atlanta attorneys, one of whom served as the former general counsel at the Georgia Secretary of State’s office.
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