ATLANTA — Georgia’s elections chief is gathering a group of law enforcement officials and elections experts to look at cracking down on mail-in ballot fraud with more voters poised to cast absentee ballots in the upcoming May 19 primaries due to coronavirus.
Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger also reiterated Monday he believes he does not have legal authority to change the date of the primaries amid the deadly respiratory virus unless Gov. Brian Kemp or state lawmakers take certain actions allowing him to do so. The new advisory body aims to set up rules for investigating cases of signature mismatches on absentee ballots and instances when multiple votes are mailed from a single address, Raffensperger said. It will also create rules for investigating cases in which a person registers to vote using an address that is not their physical home address such as a P.O. box, he said.
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