Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said Thursday he has referred three counties to be investigated for failing to complete and retain absentee ballot transfer forms, a legal requirement for regions that used ballot drop boxes in the November election. Raffensperger said in a press release that 120 Georgia counties “filled out and retained ballot transfer forms in accordance with Georgia rules,” but three counties—Coffee, Grady, and Taylor—did not. The rule, Raffensperger said, “required counties with drop boxes to fill out ballot transfer forms that included the date, time, location, and number of ballots in the drop boxes whenever election officials collected ballots from the drop box.” He said a total of 123 counties had absentee ballot drop boxes for the November 2020 election, a measure that was enabled by an emergency rule from the state’s election board that Raffensperger said was enacted to cope with the surge of absentee …