The judge said the RNC’s complaint had “no supporting facts” and was only an attempt to “tip the scales of this election by discriminating against” people more likely to vote Democrat.

In order to accommodate the high number of advance voters, election officials in several Georgia counties, including at least one Republican-leaning county that was not named in the suit, kept offices open through the weekend to accept absentee ballots.

A U.S. judge on Tuesday denied a bid by Republicans to block seven counties in the battleground state of Georgia from accepting some absentee ballots, and chided the party's lawyers for what he termed discrimination against political opponents.

A Georgia judge has blocked attempts to keep voters in Fulton County from submitting mail-in ballots in person. CBS News congressional correspondent Nikole Killion spoke with officials in the Peach State about election security.

Republicans are taking aim at Democratic strongholds in Georgia that opened locations this weekend for voters to return their absentee ballots in person. The Republican National Committee (RNC) filed a new lawsuit Sunday after a state judge one day prior rejected allegations that deep-blue Fulton County,