Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger mailed the state's 6.9 million active voters absentee ballot request forms last week.

Georgia has always required voters to pay for postage if they mail their absentee ballots. The state has allowed anyone to vote absentee without having to provide an excuse since 2005.

Voters can avoid buying stamps if they deliver their ballots to county election offices in person before election day.

Absentee ballot request forms can be mailed or emailed.

“Because of the pandemic, the number of voters who mail in ballots will skyrocket,” said Sean Young, legal director for the American Civil Liberties Union of Georgia, which filed the lawsuit on behalf of Black Voters Matter. “It is all the more imperative that unconstitutional barriers like the poll tax be removed immediately.”