A federal judge in Atlanta on Tuesday granted an emergency petition by a Democratic candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives that compels Gwinnett County to count all absentee ballots rejected because of a missing or incorrect birth year.

The order handed down by Judge Leigh Martin May was a potential break for the campaign of Democrat Carolyn Bourdeaux, who is battling to unseat Rep. Rob Woodall in House District 7, part of which lies in Gwinnett County. Bourdeaux trails Woodall by 901 votes out of nearly 279,000 total, according to the secretary of state’s website.

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