Less than 24 hours after the Democratic Party of Georgia sought a federal restraining order to extend the acceptance period for absentee ballots in the state’s Dec. 4 runoff, Georgia’s secretary of state has agreed to comply.

On Thursday, Democrats sued Secretary of State Robyn Crittenden over absentee ballots it claims weren’t mailed to voters from more than 60 counties until this week—just seven days before they must be back in the hands of the county election officials who mailed them.

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