Posted on 06/13/2024 11:12:37 AM PDT by CFW
A judge ruled Wednesday that Michigan’s Democrat Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson’s guidance telling election officials to presume the validity of absentee ballot signatures is unconstitutional.
During the 2020 election, Benson sent out guidance to election officials “that included a presumption of validity for voters’ signatures on absentee-ballot applications and absentee ballots processed at the local level,” the ruling from Court of Claims Judge Christopher Yates explains.
The Michigan Republican Party and the Allegan County clerk initially challenged the presumption of validity provision, and the Court of Claims “determined that the guidance was impermissible.” In response to the ruling, the Michigan Department of State created new guidance for signature matching that included a provision requiring officials to presume that the signature being reviewed is valid. Yates, in his ruling, noted that there was a “strong” negative response to this particular provision during a public comment period, and the state agreed on striking the language.
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It’s not Jocelyn Benson that approves ballot signatures. Each county Clerk is responsible for precincts in their counties.
Benson’s guidance is unconstitutional, but the county Clerk in Wayne county (Detroit) will continue to allow any scribble suffice as a valid signature, especially on ballots received at 3 AM.
And as soon as an election worker takes the ballot out of the secrecy envelope and tosses the ballot into the pile, there is no way to ever retrieve that ballot if the envelope signature is subsequently found to be invalid in some future lawsuit.
Trust me....she isn’t through with VOTE FRAUD!
GOOD REPUBLICANS MUST BE POLL WATCHERS!!
Sadly...the biggest fights to win elections this year need to be won in the courtrooms versus the campaign trail.
The left is going to try to erode every seatbelt, check and balance, or accountability measure in our elections to allow the cheat through corrupt judges and corrupt court decisions.
I guess Big wRetch's people didn't do their homework on this Yates guy. 
Ballot signatures are useless. If you’re going to have mail in ballots, it should be required to put your DL # or your ID card # on them. This unique identifying number not only ensures illegal aliens won’t vote, but it also ensures that people from out of the district or state won’t vote. GA enacted this a few years back (All Star Game got cancelled over it). Love it.
Gretchen Whitmer, Dana Nessel, Jocelyn Benson
The three mothers rule the world with sorrow, tears and darkness. In effect, however, those three were sisters as well as mothers, just as there are three muses, three graces, three fates and three furies.
The land upon which the three houses have been constructed... Will eventually become deathly and plague-ridden.
(from Varelli 1980 Inferno film)
Don’t voter tabulation software programs have a built-in signature verification function?
IIRC, somebody in AZ or GA or both specifically de-activated that part for the 2020 election, against state rules - can’t remember the details.
Hopefully somebody can fill in what I’ve forgotten.
It don’t make no difference with them ,LOL
This is not evidence of widespread voting fraud. This is only one single state. Moreover when asked by Hillary what difference it would make the SOS respsonded, “none” since she had already realizedthat that the state was going for Biden anyway.
In Georgia they removed the ballots from the envelope with the signature after doing the signature verification. Then fed anonymous ballots through the tabulator (at least once). Then destroyed the envelopes with the signatures. The acceptance rate of signatures was about 100 times greater than prior elections where they presumably actually checked signatures.
Judge Christopher Yates from the Detroit area?.
Kent County
So they claimed they did signature checks on the envelopes but actually didn’t.
I gather it was supposedly just visual signature verification?
Thanks
Read the article.
I'm working from memory here, but some precincts in some states used an optical scan system to capture the signature electronically and compare it to the signature on file.
As I recall, you could manually set what percentage of a match was acceptable, and the big urban 'mega' precincts turned the sensitivity all the way down, so that just about anything could be considered a match.
I don't have references or links, but that's what I recall.
However, I believe the majority of precincts in the majority of states still have a Mark I Eyeball comparing signatures. With the overwhelming volume of absentee ballots received in 2020, election workers were just taking anything as valid, and the normal 2-3% rejection rate for absentee ballots became less than 0.1%.
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