Election officials in Georgia's third-largest county say they're late in mailing more than 3,000 absentee ballots to voters just a few days before the election. Election officials in Cobb County north of Atlanta say they're using express mail and UPS overnight delivery in an effort to deliver the ballots on time.

Voting rights groups are investigating the Macon-Bibb County Board of Elections for “voter irregularities’‘ after voters received ballots for the wrong districts during the May primary election, and the issue may not be resolved.

A newly rebuilt State Election Board is positioned to determine whether the state takes over Fulton County election operations, oversee Georgia’s pivotal midterms, and investigate election security challenges.

The Macon-Bibb County Board of Elections begins a busy election year scrambling to find a new elections supervisor. Jeanetta Watson, who became the county’s first Black elections supervisor after Elaine Carr retired in 2012, resigned last week. Her last day is expected to be Jan. 21.

Every week for the last year, the Douglas elections office has been fielding at least three or four requests, mostly from out-of-town individuals or groups, looking “for every piece of documentation pertaining to the 2020 presidential election,” Kidd told Atlanta Civic Circle.

All of Georgia’s active voters will be receiving absentee ballot applications for the May 19 election but Macon-Bibb County was a step ahead. “We had...