Judge declines to put Georgia absentee ballot order on hold

ATLANTA (AP) — A federal judge won’t suspend her order governing Georgia election officials’ handling of absentee ballots and applications with mismatched signatures while the secretary of state appeals it.
U.S. District Judge Leigh May last week ordered the state to stop rejecting the ballots and applications because of a signature mismatch without first giving voters a chance to fix the problem.
She provided a procedure to resolve alleged signature discrepancies that she said