ATLANTA — The State Election Board has issued subpoenas to find out whether there's substance behind accusations of a ballot collection scheme in the 2020 election in Georgia.
The subpoenas, sent Thursday, seek evidence of allegations that unnamed organizations paid unnamed individuals $10 per absentee ballot delivered to drop boxes across metro Atlanta.
The practice of collecting multiple absentee ballots, sometimes called ballot harvesting, is illegal in Georgia, with exceptions for family members and caregivers. Ballot harvesting, if it occurred, wouldn't invalidate legitimate ballots turned in by unauthorized individuals.
