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In a victory for the Republican National Committee, the Georgia Supreme Court ruled Monday that thousands of voters whose mail-in ballots were delayed will not have additional time to return them.

The court’s ruling reversed a lower court ruling that had granted 3,000 voters a deadline extension for mail-in ballots after Cobb County election officials admitted they missed the deadline to mail them out.

The deadline for receiving mail-in ballots in Georgia is Election Day — but the lower court had given those voters an extension so that they would be postmarked by Election Day and received by Nov. 8, the same deadline for ballots abroad.

The RNC had appealed the ruling, saying it violated the election code and that voters still had other ways to vote, including in person.

The Georgia Supreme Court ordered the Cobb administration to keep voters’ absentee ballots received after the Election Day deadline but before Nov. 8 “segregated” “in a safe, secure, and sealed container, separate from other ballots.” .

Cobb County was previously instructed to mail all delayed ballots by Nov. 1 using express shipping and overnight return envelopes.

The court also ordered the board to notify voters of the change by email, text message or public announcement.