UPDATED: NOV 13 2018 04:04PM EST GWINNETT COUNTY, Ga. - A federal judge has ordered Tuesday Gwinnett County officials must count absentee ballots where the applicants either made an error on or omitted their birth date. This ruling comes after a lawsuit by civil rights and voting groups and Democratic House candidate Carolyn Bourdeaux, which argued that Gwinnett County's rejection of 1,000 absentee ballots for "trivial reasons" violated federal law. RELATED: Bourdeaux files lawsuit to delay Gwinnett County's election certification (Photo by Jessica McGowan/Getty Images) In the ruling, United States District Judge Leigh Martin May ruled that Gwinnett County can not reject "absentee ballots containing an error or omission relating to the absentee voter's year of birth" and must "to delay certification until such ballots have been counted." May pointed out that her ruling "applies to only a small portion of the outstanding absentee ballots," pointing that around 265 ballots had voters omitting their year of birth and 58 rejected "because voters erroneously wrote that they were born in 2018. According to Georgia's Secretary of State's Office, Bourdeaux is trailing by incumbent Republican Rep. Rob Woodall by around 900 votes.

BREAKING: A federal judge has ruled that a metro Atlanta county must accept hundreds of absentee ballots that were rejected because they contained errors https://t.co/uZWA5WaHAc

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