A fake video making the rounds on social media and issues with absentee ballots in Cobb County have sown some doubt recently
COBB COUNTY, Ga. — Remington Phillips said he waited an hour in line at the Cobb County Elections headquarters just to cast his ballot on the last day of early in-person voting in Georgia.
“My opinion matters, my perspective matters and my family matter,” Phillips said. “I just try to understand the human aspect of everything and again make sure I’m respecting the people who are working.”
For those unable to make it to the polls in person, there’s absentee by mail. More than 3,000 Cobb County voters who requested mail-in ballots hadn’t gotten them. Caitlin May is a voting rights staff attorney with the ACLU of Georgia, one of the groups that petitioned a Cobb County superior court judge to extend the timelineto turn in the mail-in ballots for those who had them …