Thursday, September 07, 2023

Kari Lake WINS on Signature Match

Another "election official" who was playing games loses in court.

A judge has found that Arizona's signature matching process for mail-in ballots is unlawful, delivering what the plaintiffs in the lawsuit called a "massive win" for election integrity.

Yavapai County Superior Court Judge John Napper issued a ruling last week (pdf) in a lawsuit against Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes brought by public interest group Restoring Integrity and Trust in Elections (RITE), which alleged that Mr. Fontes broke the law regarding mail-in ballot signature verification procedures.

Specifically, the group argued that Mr. Fontes' interpretation of "registration record" in the Secretary of State's Elections Procedures Manual was unreasonably broad and improperly expanded the pool of signatures to which an early ballot affidavit signature could be compared, increasing the risk of false positives....

It's a variation on the Megan Wolfe illegal practices game in Wisconsin. 

By the way, there was NEVER an audit of signature-matches in Milwaukee, Dane, Brown, Kenosha, or Racine counties.

Never.

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