Kurt Kastorf, a member of Abrams' litigation team, said Thursday that the campaign believes the county was slow to mail out absentee ballots. Mailings were held up initially when someone sued Dougherty officials after their name was excluded from the ballot, and later Hurricane Michael's impact delayed government functions, the lawsuit says.

“During October, a confluence of extraordinary circumstances — first a judicial injunction, then a state holiday, then a natural disaster — prevented Dougherty County from coming even close to meeting its statutory deadline for providing absentee ballots to electors,” the complaint, filed Thursday in federal court, said.