The Georgia Supreme Court ruled that any ballot received by 7 p.m. on Election Day can be counted, but any ballots received after the deadline through 5 p.m. on Nov. 8, must be kept separately and securely, but not destroyed, until further notice from the court. Those late ballots would not immediately be counted.

Georgia's highest court has stayed a lower court ruling that would have allowed certain voters in the state's third-largest county who received their absentee ballots late to return them after the deadline.