Posted on 09/15/2020 4:14:25 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
Pennsylvania officials have directed counties not to discard mail-in ballots solely because an election official believes a signature doesnt match the one in the voters file.
The new guidance issued Monday prompted several organizations, including the Campaign Legal Center (CLC), to drop a lawsuit against the Pennsylvanias Department of State. The state now has a uniform process for verifying signatures instead of leaving it to the discretion of local officials.
Under the new guidance, voters will have the opportunity to fix issues with the signature on their ballots.
As a result of this case, Pennsylvania voters can cast their vote without fear that their ballot could be rejected solely because an election official who isnt trained in handwriting analysis thinks their signatures dont match. Voting should not be a penmanship test, Mark Gaber, director of trial litigation at the CLC, said in a statement.
Pennsylvania which is a key swing state in the presidential election passed a law in 2019 allowing for no-excuse mail-in voting. That, paired with the pandemic, has led to an increase in popularity for mail-in ballots.
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They sure as hell can.
Just have a shredder handy.
Hillary should be able to give them a good reference
where to get an industrial model.
The signatures don’t have to match. Trump probably just lost PA.
Unless you change your name, your signature should never change.
How about discarding under signature?
sounds like a Democratic Governor is riggin an election.
Handwriting analysis isnt easy and the certificate to be trained in that is very expensive. And it is very subjective even then (part of my job involves reading handwriting analysts reports for forgery claims).
Here in CA I dont vote by mail because I presume my signature no longer matches the one I originally used when registering years agoand even if it did they could still decide it didnt and toss my ballot into the SF Bay.
Supposed to be the same signature on their DL’s or what’s on their voter registration card.
A full blown attack against the Union perpetrated by Soros bought and paid for people.
Apparently voters will just have to authority to fix it.
That means the voter has to be contacted. If its not really their ballot I assume that will come out.
Dont despair.
My signature wouldnt match either. Perhaps a good professional could discern it. But theres a danger for Trump votes being rejected just like Biden votes. So it should be fine to contact the voter if the signatures dont match. May root out some voter fraud.
So anybody can just vote willy-nilly now? It’s a free for all folks.
Get ready to fight.
Under the new guidance, voters will have the opportunity to fix issues with the signature on their ballots.
So the “voter” can fix any issues but they can’t vote in person? Is that what I’m reading.
No brainer to know that absolutely NO ONE will come to the local precinct to “fix” their ballot. And the Dem’s in state leadership will allow all of them, saying that it’s just too much to deal with at such a crucial time. And the Republicans in the state won’t put up any fight whatsoever.
All because she lost and one man became President.
If the voter needs to be contacted about their signature, this filters out those who filed a fake ballot. If they have to come in to verify it, then illegals and the fakers will probably not come in.
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I agree, I don’t have a problem with this.
I don’t think it should be up to ONE election official to throw away a ballots, because they don’t think the signature matches. They would be throwing away republican ballots by the thousands.
Give them a chance to prove they filled out the ballot. I think this is a plus for us.
“Pennsylvania officials have directed counties not to discard mail-in ballots solely because an election official believes a signature doesnt match the one in the voters file.”
And will probably say don’t discard a ballot hjust because the voter died....2 years ago.
OMG!!! OUT AND OUT Fraud !! ! WE ARE a banana republic.with NO bananas!
Uhmmm....No, you are wrong
Signature needs to match.
How is any of this Constitutional?
We have created greatly unequal standards for voting rights - some can be mailed, some not, requesting mailed ballots is highly different, handling is different, signature requirements are different, counting times are different.
Such differences will logically create vast inequality in voting access and rights.
The levels this country has sunk to are pathetic and it’s only going to get worse.
Some day, millennials will be in charge of all this stuff, if they can look from their phones long enough. And it will all be done via text message, even if they’re ten feet from the person they’re texting.
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