Those absentee ballots were opened and read, and then held up, happens all the time. Some of course, really were late, and by the laws of lalaland, are not counted. It's the law. It's a weakness the the Dems have a special team to handle.
What's more important are the literally hundreds of thousands of those illegal registrations that plague your state. OTOH, I sympathise. Control of our statehouse was lost by 44 votes that the Democrats thought were not important enough to count. There isn't a court in the state that can overturn it. The Democrats count on it.