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Striking another blow to a tumultuous independent candidacy, the Texas Democratic Party on Monday accused presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. of using faulty signatures to try and make the Texas ballot this fall. First reported by the Dallas Morning News and confirmed in a statement to Chron, Texas Democratic Party chair Gilberto Hinojosa said that Kennedy did not qualify for the Texas ballot after attempting to "overwhelm the system with bad signatures," estimating that 70 percent of the candidate's petition signatures "failed miserably" to meet the basic criteria of the Texas election code. Hinojosa urged the Texas Secretary of...

With Kari Lake's legal complaint alleging systematic signature verification failures in Maricopa County remanded by the Arizona Supreme Court to trial court, closer examination of the signature verification software used by the county reveals a strikingly low threshold for signatures to qualify as "high-confidence" matches. Since falling about 17,000 votes short in the 2022 Arizona gubernatorial election to Democrat Gov. Katie Hobbs, Lake has continued to contest the election results in court, arguing that there were ballot chain of custody and signature verification issues in addition to thousands of Republican voters disproportionately disenfranchised on Election Day, when voting machine errors...