Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger defended four blue Atlanta-area counties that opened election offices over the weekend to accept straggling absentee ballots, but he said Fulton County, in particular,

Additional police will be present at the election headquarters in Fulton County, Georgia, this year — “just because of what’s going on,” LaShandra Little, voter education and outreach manager for the county,

The judge rejected a Republican lawsuit trying to block counties from opening election offices on Saturday and Sunday to let voters hand in their mail ballots in person.

In a last-minute lawsuit, Republicans claimed election officials violated state law by accepting absentee ballots that were returned over the weekend.