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Ballot signature matching system in Maricopa County is 'almost illegal,' says longtime FBI expert
Just the News ^ | 5/7/23 | Natalia Mittelstadt

Posted on 05/08/2023 5:32:35 AM PDT by CFW

As Kari Lake's lawsuit returns to the trial court for consideration of alleged violations of Maricopa County's signature verification rules in the Arizona 2022 general election, a retired FBI counterintelligence agent with longtime expertise in signature analysis says that matching ballot signatures with little time to review is "almost illegal."

If election workers have a limited amount of time to review signatures on early ballots to ensure they match with voters' files, it's "almost illegal to have it work that way," said retired FBI Special Agent Wayne A. Barnes, adding, "almost pathetic."

Barnes, a 29-year FBI veteran who mastered signature analysis while unmasking Soviet spies during the Cold War, previously wrote a report commissioned by Just the News that found that the signature on the receipt from the Delaware repair shop where Hunter Biden left his laptop was a match for the signature of President Biden's son.

(Excerpt) Read more at justthenews.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Politics/Elections; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: 2022election; arizona; electionfraud; hobbs; lake; voterfraud
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Everyone involved in the 2022 Arizona election knows, and knew at the time, that fraud and the deliberate suppression of GOP votes, was being implemented in that election. The signature-matching procedures along should be enough to over-turn the election results. Also, Hobbs should have been removed from over-seeing her own election. The judges who refused to recognize the fraud are doing so because they are scared of the mob coming after them, or because they prefer Hobbs as governor and are willing to overlook the fraud and corruption.
1 posted on 05/08/2023 5:32:35 AM PDT by CFW
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Any time the initials "FBI" are connected to a sentence that contains the words "almost illegal", you can bet the activity under discussion is definitely criminal.

Criminals have seized our entire electoral process in order to cede America to filthy, unwashed mongrels from all over the world.

2 posted on 05/08/2023 5:39:46 AM PDT by LouAvul (Daniel 4:17: "..the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever He will.." )
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The signatures Lake is talking about aren’t even an attempt at writing the name. Even if all the blank lines and squiggly marks were taken out it would be more than enough to provide margin of error.


3 posted on 05/08/2023 5:39:55 AM PDT by erlayman
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To: CFW

Stories like this always bring out the trolls whose job it is to constantly be nay sayers to protect the rodents’ theft of this election.

Those people are Surrender Monkeys.

Of course, it would be a wonderful victory if Kari Lake wins in court but she is just not going to.

She knows that and Hobbs knows that.

The corrupt Arizona Court system will see to that.

But winning this case is NOT essential to Kari’s eventual seating in the governor’s chair.
A well -executed Kari Lake recall of Hobbs will do that.
The recall system in Arizona is used regularly.
The rules definitely favor those bringing the recall since no particular cause must be cited.

That means no state agency can deny the application because it doesn’t like the reason for it.

The application must be filed on time and made out properly - then it is a go.

The officer holder must be in office for 6 months which means Lake’s recall of Hobbs starts on July 3, 2023.

Lake needs to collect signatures of at least 25% of the votes cast in the election that put the office holder in office.
That is not going to be a problem for Lake since she can get more than enough good signatures in Maricopa alone.

The Dems cannot do very much about stopping the process since sneaking in bad signatures will only help make the case Lake is making that they cheated.

Flooding the ballot with rodent candidates won’t hurt Lake either since - and this is maybe the best part- the system works this way: TWO votes on election day.

The first “Should Office holder be recalled? If yes, they count votes for all candidates. The winner is the person getting the most votes. PERIOD.
Lake’s people will be ready for the cheating and what she is doing is very smart.

This case is six months of pounding Hobbs and getting her people charged up.

Of course, the Democrat/communists will try to cheat but that will be harder because Lake will be ready for every cheat they try.

Lake’s strategy will be lots of Lake poll watchers to get a YES on vote one SHOULD HOBBS BE IMPEACHED?

When vote one is counted and is a go - the second one is counted: Who should be the next governor?

THERE IS NO RUNOFF!!! There is only who gets the highest number of votes wins among the lawfully nominated candidates which automatically includes Hobbs.

For the rodents, flooding the ballot with fake candidates will only lower the percentage of votes needed to win.

So theoretically if there are 100 candidates and each draws a near even number of votes Lake could win with 4% and be the new governor.
This is all applicable for the AG and Sec of State recalls as well.

Since recall is so familiar in AZ there are no problems of educating the voters and EVERYBODY knows the honest reliable signature gathers so the number of bogus signatures for Lake will be low.

Lake is running a very cleverly constructed recall and since it is not official Hobbs can’t do a thing about it because if she starts answering these attacks she loses but if she refuses to answer these attacks she loses.

The rules say 120 days to collect the needed signatures.
Then, a special election which will be well monitored by Lake.

The corrupt judges can’t really do much except wait until July 3, 2023 to announce that they find for Hobbs. That will be done to try to make Lake look like a sore loser that has no evidence.

Nevertheless, at the rate Kari is pounding Hobbs that won’t be much help because the only ones who will believe the fake “sour grapes” attack on Lake will be Hobbs voters anyway.


4 posted on 05/08/2023 5:40:05 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Freedom is never free. It must be won rewon and jealously guarded.)
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The judges who refused to recognize the fraud are doing so because they are scared of the mob coming after them...

Fentanyl loaded Millies and Zeros with their "Pay my Bills" and "I Want An Abortion NOW" signs showing up on your lawn every night and dancing around a bonfire like a bunch of drunken Caucasian "Indian" professors can be very frightening. It's like Kristallnacht all over again.

5 posted on 05/08/2023 5:48:48 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Since O'Bama was ruling the roost, America has gone from "melting pot" to septic tank of the world.)
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I realize that this FBI rep appears honest, but I still find that, given that agency’s totally destroyed reputation, someone from there would use the phrase ‘almost illegal’.

If we ever get a respectable, honest, and competent government again, hopefully, the FBI will be gutted, except for the one or two honest employees that managed to exist. The rest? Guillotines.

Rusty and dull ones.


6 posted on 05/08/2023 5:50:01 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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When I voted in Minnesota during the mid-terms I noticed that they had done away with signatures altogether. I told the poll worker my name, they showed me my name and address on a screen and I had to just touch “yes” to verify that it was me. No ID, no signature. I’m guessing that is set up to facilitate fraud. It used to be that everyone had to sign in next to their name when they came to vote. My guess is that some people were told they had already voted and the people responded by saying that wasn’t their signature. The simple solution, do away with signatures.


7 posted on 05/08/2023 5:50:10 AM PDT by euram (allALL)
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A coup by any other name....


8 posted on 05/08/2023 5:53:52 AM PDT by Pajamajan ( PRAY FOR OUR NATION. Never be a peaceful slave in a new Socialist America)
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Please Don’t tell my Mom I work for the FBI. She thinks I have an honest job playing piano at the whorehouse in town.


9 posted on 05/08/2023 5:54:00 AM PDT by MMusson
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A coup by any other name....

Like the FBI, illegal surveillance of Trump and then the 51 signature lie to throw a debate and influence voters with lies.

10 posted on 05/08/2023 5:57:28 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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voting procedure - signature - at the polls bkmk


11 posted on 05/08/2023 5:59:22 AM PDT by linMcHlp
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To: Pajamajan

In the meantime the invaders from the south will have done unspeakable damage to the great state of Arizona. It’s getting late.


12 posted on 05/08/2023 6:01:15 AM PDT by lilypad
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This same fraud happens in every mail-in votes. Anyone who has watched the process knows how easy it would be to forge a signature. They just see if the first and last initial is close and the rest of the signature doesn’t matter.


13 posted on 05/08/2023 6:04:22 AM PDT by bray (Dr Fauxi killed millions)
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It is working as intended.


14 posted on 05/08/2023 6:06:38 AM PDT by pas
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There was NO Signature Matching.


15 posted on 05/08/2023 6:08:56 AM PDT by tennmountainman ( Less Lindell CONS, More AZ Style Audits)
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That is very encouraging to know - July 3rd is on my radar now ...


16 posted on 05/08/2023 6:15:05 AM PDT by 11th_VA (XX < > XY)
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excerpt from article quote:

If election workers have a limited amount of time to review signatures on early ballots to ensure they match with voters’ files, it’s “almost illegal to have it work that way,” said retired FBI Special Agent Wayne A. Barnes, adding, “almost pathetic.”

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is this anything like “almost pregnant”?


17 posted on 05/08/2023 6:17:19 AM PDT by thinden (buckle up ....)
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My Florida ID card and my passport have ID numbers.

My voter registration card could be required to be enclosed.

Date of birth information could be required to be provided.

Telephone number information could be required to be provided (and checked for duplicate usage). Those without a confirmed telephone number would go into a provisional processing box.


18 posted on 05/08/2023 6:18:18 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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Signature matching could be done by electronic means.

Electronic no-go would result in provisional pile placement.


19 posted on 05/08/2023 6:20:14 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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It was too important for the Sonora Cartel to have their Demonrat (and RINO) puppets in office in Phoenix... and D.C.


20 posted on 05/08/2023 6:24:22 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (America Owes Anita Bryant An Enormous Apology)
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