Posted on 05/08/2021 8:58:16 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
div class="post_content">
Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey signed a law on Friday banning voters from adding signatures on unsigned mail-in ballots after election day.
The measure, Arizona Senate bill 1003 (S.B. 1003), was approved earlier in the state legislature in party-line votes.
The new law codified a ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Oct. 6, 2020, within one month of the 2020 election. It also ended disputes over unsigned mail-in ballots between the state Republicans and Democrats.
Current Arizona law allows election officials to contact the voters to fix the signatures on the ballots if the signatures don’t match other signatures from records in the Department of Motor Vehicle, voter registration forms, or previous early ballots. The voters can fix the signatures, if they failed to pass the verification process, within up to five business days after election day.
The new law didn’t change anything about the grace period for the signed ballots.
However, it ended the state Democrats’ efforts to add a similar grace period to unsigned ballots.
Before the 2020 election, Arizona Secretary of the State Katie Hobbs—a Democrat—was trying to set a five-business-day grace period for the voters to fix the ballots if the ballots are not signed.
Hobbs’s move is part of the efforts to honor a settlement in 2019 with the Navajo Nation, which allows Navajo voters with mismatched or missing signatures on mail-in ballots to correct their ballots with five business days after the election day.
However, the efforts were stopped by the appeal court judges who said, in alignment with the state Republicans, that the Democrats went too far by giving absentee voters five days after Election Day to correct missing signatures on mail-in ballots.
(Excerpt) Read more at theepochtimes.com ...
So Native Americans are so stunningly stupid that they don’t know they have to sign the ballot....on the line provided on the envelope??!! Democrats will do and say anything to win elections and gain power!
So this didn’t affect the 2020 Election?
Arizona election bump.
I wonder how many unsigned ballots were tossed in the 2020 election.
what’s to stop the RATs from doing what they currently do...cure the ballot themselves
The Democrats could SIGN BALLOTS BEFORE this law??? OMG! The CORRUPTION IS EVERYWHERE!
W.I.M.P.: Did Adjudication of These Votes Provide The Hologram’s Margin of Victory?
We need to go back to dumb voting machines.
There is no solution which does not involve people showing up in person, with ID, and the ID being recorded and verified.
This is a tiny fix but at least its a positive one. What Arizona really needs to do is require official photo ID for mail in ballots if they’re going to insist on keeping mail in balloting.
Oh and impose a total ban on ballot harvesting and drop boxes.
and require each precinct to report exactly how many ballots it has received at the end of each day.
However, it ended the state Democrats’ efforts to add
a similar grace period to unsigned ballots.
*********
At least it blocked a grace period for unsigned ballots.
Laws are for the law abiding, not democrats.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.