All Kemp has to do is carry on with the multiple voter suppression tactics he is using until after the election. He did this before, was ordered not to do it, and now he is doing it again. Timing is everything - just has to get past the election.
His actions, of course, are the real voter fraud that he purports to be stopping. There is voter fraud on a massive scale and it is all being done by elected Republicans.
Judge, folks will have 3 days to fix… OH wait let’s not notify them for 72 hours… can we say fix is in yet.
Sounds like they may use another baseless reason to reject ballots in order to get around the court’s bar on using the signature match test.
I’m sure they’re looking for loopholes harder then finding the ballots rejected for not matching signatures.
This makes sense to me from a fraud point of view as well. If the signature does not match, it’s either the registered voter producing a nonmatching signature, in which case obviously the vote should be counted, or it’s an apparent attempt at ballot fraud – in which case it should be investigated like any other felony. Simply dropping the ballot in the wastebasket is either election tampering or officials closing their eyes to attempted election tampering.
No human being on earth has the same signature every single time.
It’s not within the realm of possibility.
The only purpose this system has is to suppress the vote.
Period.
Full stop.
Yes. A gazillion trillion times YES. That’s absolutely what all of this shit is. All anyone has to do to know that is use their head - did we have a massive voter fraud problem before the GOP started all this crap? NO.
All it is is voter suppression.
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No human being on earth has the same signature every single time.It’s not within the realm of possibility.
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I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again my signature now doesn’t match the signature on my voter registration form which I signed over 30 years ago. And when in prior elections we had to sign in the registration book I could see if I used my middle initial or full middle name, now we sign in electronically and that sure doesn’t match any signature I’ve produced in the past.
As if the clerks at a typical precinct are qualified to assess a false signature. Whatever happened to due process?
That is the most sensible approach I’ve heard. Too bad the courts aren’t requiring that!
I was 21when I registered. I’m nearly 70. My signature does not match.
So now they will have to go back to the time honored system of rigging the voting machines.
The judge has now entered the order stopping this fraud.
Great news - thanks.
Here is something interesting. My wife and I sent in our ballots the day after we received them. I just checked on line to see if they were counted, and the message I got was that my signature was verified and my vote was counted. I don’t ever remember seeing anything about my signature having been verified before. I live in AZ so I would not be surprised at anything that might happen during an election.
I looked for recent news and found this
QUESTION: What if someone uses another voter’s early ballot to vote?
“They’d have to get by the signature verification system,” Fontes said. “On every envelope, we get a scan of the name and signature on it. And we match that up on the form that person originally gave us that has their signature on it from the voter registration file.”
There are multiple election workers who verify each early ballot. Fontes said.
Now it says on line that my vote and my wife’s vote were counted, but how is it possible to not be paranoid in this current climate? Fontes is a Democrat, but the same day voting in the primaries had multiple problems that have not been explained, including many polling places where the machines were not working correctly but the polling place did not extend their hours.
It seems like, state by state, an inordinate amount of energy is being spent to scrutinize a cast ballot but little or no energy is being spent to make sure that people actually can cast a ballot. In point of fact, it seems like a lot of money is being spent to make sure people can’t vote. This shit is just crazy.
It makes every close election suspect to everyone, not just Democrats.
Imagine a country where there is wide spread disbelief in the results of all elections.
I’ll tell you why it doesn’t match, my plastic library card is about as old as my voter registration signature. Every time I have to renew my library card (which has my signature from HS) they ask me if I want a new card. Shit no (I say it more politely) I’ve hung on to this card for over 30 years why would I want a new one?
Is there any recourse for those already disenfranchised?
One would normally expect some resemblance between signatures of the same person. However, compare signatures from different time periods and all bets are off.
My own signature changed dramatically (and not deliberately) over a period of a few years. Maybe it was the result of affixing my signature on so many things that my brain decided to take a short cut for me…or maybe I suffered a brain injury I don’t remember. 
In any event, my signature eventually stabilized on a new normal that looks nothing like my signature from 30 years ago.
Kemp’s complicit criminality is so desperate and breathtaking!
Today’s GOP will stop at NOTHING to mastermind the disenfranchisement of ANY voter likely to vote for a Democrat!
In voting to trash The Voting Rights Act’s protections, Chief Justice John Robert’s assertion that we live in a post-racist era where voting rights abuses are simply not an occurrence was either impossibly naive, or the puzzle piece necessary for demons like Kemp to proceed with abandon. One choice looks far more likely at this point, huh?
If they only spent one tenth of the time and effort to help avg. americans, or make a positive impact and float all boats.