ATLANTA (AP) - The Latest on the Georgia governor's race (all times local):
12:20 p.m.
A federal judge has ordered a populous Georgia county not to reject absentee ballots because the voter's birth year is missing or wrong.
The order issued Tuesday by U.S. Judge Leigh May says rejecting absentee ballots solely because of a missing or incorrect birth year violates the Civil Rights Act.
She ordered Gwinnett County election officials not to reject those ballots and to count any that were cast in the Nov. 6 midterm election. She also ordered Gwinnett County to delay certification of its election results until those ballots have been counted.
The order stems from requests filed by the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and by Democratic congressional candidate Carolyn Bourdeaux.
The race between Bourdeaux and Republican incumbent U.S. Rep. Rob Woodall for Georgia's 7th Congressional District remains too close to call.
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11:30 p.m.
A federal judge has ordered Georgia's secretary of state to wait until Friday to certify the results of the midterm elections that include an unsettled race for governor and to take steps to protect provisional ballots.
U.S. District Judge Amy Totenberg ruled Monday that the secretary of state must not certify the results of the election until Friday at 5 p.m.
She ordered the state to establish a hotline or website where voters can check whether their provisional ballots were counted and, if not, the reason why.
For all counties with 100 or more provisional ballots, she ordered the secretary of state's office to order county election officials to conduct a "good faith review" or to do an "independent review" itself of the eligibility of voters who had to cast a provisional ballot because of registration issues.
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