Georgia Secretary of State and State Election Board Changed Absentee Ballot Signature Verification and Added Drop Boxes Without State Legislature’s Approval

Georgia Star ^ | 12/16/2020 | Laura Baigert

[RightGeek]

As in-person early voting began Monday for the January 5 run off election for two U.S. Senate seats in Georgia, significant changes for absentee ballot signature verification and drop boxes put into place by Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and the State Election Board ahead of the November 3 presidential election without the state legislature’s approval are still in place.

Local county registrars began mailing approved absentee ballots to voters for the January 5 run off elections more than three weeks ago on November 18, according to Georgia’s election calendar.

Neither (1) the use of drop boxes for voters to deposit absentee ballots nor (2) the current method of absentee ballot signature verification have been authorized by the Georgia General Assembly.

(1) The use of drop boxes for voters to deposit absentee ballots has not been authorized by the Georgia General Assembly

Mail or personal delivery are the only two ways that Georgia lawmakers have clearly specified in O.C.G.A. 21-2-385 that electors are to get their absentee ballots to the registrar or absentee ballot clerk.

There are no provisions in the current Georgia code made by state legislators – who have the sole constitutional responsibility for setting election procedures as stated in Article II Section I, Paragraph I of the Constitution of the State of Georgia – for drop boxes or any other manner in which absentee ballots can be returned to the registrar other than mail or in-person delivery.

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More details on 2) at the link

[RightGeek]

[Mr Information]

“SCOTUS already ruled “nobody’s business what the states choose to do”.”

But DID the STATE choose to do that, if it was just the Secretary of State and the State Election Board, and NOT the State legislature?

[ConjunctionJunction]

SCOTUS made a political decision not to get involved in the Texas case and they used lack of standing to justify it.

[newzjunkey]

The signature verification change was a settlement between Raffensperger and Stacy Abrams. I've read it lowered the standard to "40%" from "60%" match.

A consent decree is when a person or company settles with the gov't such as when Microsoft was found to be an abusive monopoly. I don't think the term applies here, I think this was just a standard settlement rather than the secretary of state defending election law standards in court.

Make no mistake, Abrams knew exactly what she was doing. They took advantage of covid and Republicans ran scared, likely because they didn't want to be called racists even though the law as is, is reasonable and applied equally to all Georgia voters.

[gibsonguy]

This traitor is in the process of handing the Senate to the rats and the spineless GOP is letting him. The Georgia patriots should be dragging the POS out of his office and tossing him into a land fill.

[DEPcom]

“The Gov’s,daughter’s boyfriend certainly did...”

I heard he voted with his absentee ballot.

[ntnychik]

And the cheat goes on...

[alternatives?]

“The signature verification change was a settlement between Raffensperger and Stacy Abrams.”

I would think a judge has to sign off on both a settlement or a consent decree so I am not sure what the difference between the two is. Maybe the SOS has authority for the signature standard and he could change it anywhere from 10% to 90%. Sees there should be some limit.

[LilFarmer]

L Lin Wood’s case docketed at SCOTUS is about this very thing.

It was filed 11/13 (not too late). It has gone through the lower courts already. And he should have standing as a GA voter. We will see.

https://www.supremecourt.gov/search.aspx?filename=/docket/docketfiles/html/public/20-799.html

[Bellagio]

SCOTUS ignores the threat from Communist run states in the union. The state citizenry is under duress from these state hooligans of subversion, suppression, repression and censor.

The union suffers from this unchecked cancer!

These rogue states are no longer members of the union compact having betrayed the constitution and their statehood responsibilities... ALL their delegates are to be rejected and EJECTED!

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14th Amendment Section 3:

No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any state, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any state legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any state, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.

In other words... Section 3 prohibits any person who had gone to war against the union or given aid and comfort to the nation's enemies from running for federal or state office, unless Congress by a two-thirds vote specifically permitted it.

[LilFarmer]

He also just tweeted this:

Lin Wood
@LLinWood
I am preparing a complaint seeking to enjoin & prevent the runoff from going forward on January 5.

It makes NO sense why
@BrianKempGA

@GeoffDuncanGA
,
@GaSecofState
&
@ChrisCarr_Ga
would force GA voters to be subjected to same fraud using Dominion machines & fake mail ballots.

https://twitter.com/LLinWood/status/1339272855809191936?s=20

[SueRae]

FILE A CASE NOW. STOP THIS CRAP.

[Pajamajan]

bttt

[timestax]

DemonCraps can do whatever they want.

[pookie18]

& here’s one of Sidney Powell’s:

https://www.supremecourt.gov/search.aspx?filename=/docket/docketfiles/html/public/20-816.html

[littleharbour]

ConjunctionJunction write:

“SCOTUS made a political decision not to get involved in the Texas case and they used lack of standing to justify it.”

Bingo! This is the most concise statement I have seen about what the duplicity of the SCOTUS.

This was the only way that they could prevent the evidence, which the left and lower court judges refused to even look at, from seeing the light of day. Granting an actual hearing would have required the miscreant states to justify why they by-passed the State legislatures, in clear violation of the Constitution. SCOTUS would have had to twist itself in knots to support the fraud. It was much easier to bury everything with a fake technical ruling that 99% of the people do not understand.

[LilFarmer]

Excellent! I didn’t know her GA one had been docketed.

Here are her four filings at SCOTUS:
AZ - https://www.sidneypowell.com/pageaz
GA - https://www.sidneypowell.com/ga-scotus
MI - https://www.sidneypowell.com/mi-scotus
WI - https://www.sidneypowell.com/wi-scotus

[StAnDeliver]

This is interesting, to me anyway, in that Kemp called for signature audit and then backed off...

"During an appearance on Fox News on Thursday night, Governor Kemp said, "I called early on for a signature audit. Obviously, the Secretary of State, per the laws of the Constitution, would have to order that. He has not done that. I think it should be done. Especially after what we saw today. There needs to be transparency on that. Hopefully, in the next 24 hours, we'll see a lot more."

That in turn now gives any future suit demanding the restoration of signature verification or the disqualification of elections without signature verification, the Governor said one thing and did exactly the other. Meaning the final respondent to safeguard Georgia's votes was in abeyance of his constitutional duties.

[LilFarmer]

See #29

[M Kehoe]

Methinks Lin Wood was disenfranchised, and he has standing.

5.56mm