ATLANTA - Late Wednesday night, a federal judge issued a 43-page ruling in the vote counting that could impact the election in Georgia.

U.S. District Judge Steve Jones denied Stacey Abrams' request to count provisional ballots that were cast outside their county of residence, and accepted her request to require all counties to accept absentee ballots with errors or omissions in voters’ birthdates.

It's not immediately clear how many ballots the ruling will effect. Gwinnett County was already ordered to accept absentee ballots with birth date errors, and county officials said more than 300 could be affected. Kemp’s campaign pegged the number at around 400.

Earlier on Wednesday, Jones declined to delay Tuesday's deadline for counties to verify election results. Gwinnett County is one of a few counties that has not yet certified their votes. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution's Greg Bluestein reports that the county will certify on Thursday.

Jones questioned voters from the Republican Party of Georgia and secretary of state’s office whether voters would be harmed by uneven implementation of guidance from the secretary of state’s office regarding absentee ballots.

Only Gwinnett is under court order to count ballots with missing birth dates. The judge also questioned whether it was practical to require provisional votes cast outside the county where a person resides to still be counted.

Stacey Abrams’ campaign and the Georgia Democratic Party argued they should.

Flanked by Democratic members of the state legislature, Abrams' campaign manager Lauren Groh-Wargo, presented stacks of paperwork with voter data to prove the high number of provisional ballots cast in last Tuesday’s gubernatorial election.

“I would say inconsistency, unbelievable volume and a just utter disaster of election administration that this is the cleanup we’re doing," Groh-Wargo said.

Amid a flurry of federal lawsuits seeking to count more provisional and absentee ballots rejected by county elections offices, Abrams needs come up with about 17,000 votes to force a December runoff against Republican, and former Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp.

“It’s a fundamental expectation of a voter when they cast their ballot that that vote is going to count," said state Sen. Nan Orrock.

Georgia Republican Party Chairman John Watson agreed to meet with Aaron Diamant after the Democrats’ event.

“Let me be clear, we want every single legal vote cast in Georgia to be counted. That’s what this process is about. That’s what transparency dictates. It’s what democracy dictates," he said.

Watson remains convinced the numbers just aren’t there for Abrams.

“The reality is I see it this way.The Democrats candidly are upset by the fact that the voters rejected them. The fact of the matter is Brian Kemp won this election," he said.

Abrams' campaign isn't backing down.

“We reject that. That is not what people signed up to represent their constituents and voters do. That is such an egregious breach of public trust and an egregious breach of power," she said.

The Republican Party, secretary of state and an attorney representing Gwinnett County said there are no processes that exist to prevent voter fraud if that rule is changed.

The lawsuit, filed Sunday, asked the court to require absentee ballots rejected for “arbitrary” reasons, such as a mistake in a birth date or missing information, to be counted. As many as 2,000 ballots were dismissed because of such problems.