Here's a guess: It's an Equal Protection thing. In GA and MI, there are voter ID laws. If those in person had to submit ID but those voting by mail didn't, then there's an argument that those voters weren't treated equally--those who voted in person had a burden to meet that the others didn't. Or maybe that the threshold for identification of the the mail in ballots doesn't meet the standard required for Equal Protection.
Here's a guess: It's an Equal Protection thing. In GA and MI, there are voter ID laws. If those in person had to submit ID but those voting by mail didn't, then there's an argument that those voters weren't treated equally--those who voted in person had a burden to meet that the others didn't. Or maybe that the threshold for identification of the the mail in ballots doesn't meet the standard required for Equal Protection.