A judge in Georgia’s Fulton County on Thursday dismissed a Republican lawsuit seeking to close absentee ballot drop boxes after normal business hours, according to multiple reports. The ruling came in a lawsuit brought by Georgia’s Republican Party and the Republican National Committee (RNC), which called for ballots received after regular business hours—typically 5 p.m.—not to be accepted, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and WSB-TV Atlanta. Fulton County Superior Court Judge Kimberly Esmond Adams ruled that the court did not have jurisdiction in the case, according to the Journal-Constitution. The ruling comes after federal judges in Georgia dismissed two Republican lawsuits last week—one in Augusta and the second in Atlanta—which challenged absentee ballot rules ahead of the crucial Jan. 5 Senate runoffs. In Augusta, U.S. District Court Judge Randal Hall dismissed a lawsuit that sought to prohibit the use of drop boxes for absentee ballots and ramp up signature verification protocols, amid charges that the current processes …