Are the early mail in ballots segregated when they come in ? That needs to happen for politically induced fraud to be investigated.
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> Are the early mail in ballots segregated when they come in ?
I believe they are grouped by date received and some other internal process identifiers (postal box attributes, audit batch, precinct, group sent out, etc). So an audit could distinguish some associations between mail in ballots. There’s some kind of break in the chain after the signature is verified which destroys some of the provenance (secret ballot, y’know?) but the processing is done with batches and audit control identifiers.
This year Pima went with “voting centers” which allowed voting from any polling location no matter what your precinct. I imagine this has created opportunities for a whole new universe of exploits beyond what’s possible for mail-in and early voting.
I think I will just research the whole thing and then see if I can free the data and make it public.