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Glenn Kessler
@GlennKesslerWP
Sitting U.S. senator demonstrates he has no clue how elections work in his own state. Hard to believe, but here it is in black and white. Jeez.
Greg Bluestein
@bluestein
Echoing Trump, @sendavidperdue is asking for the impossible - a recount in which signatures on absentee ballot envelopes are properly matched and verified to their signature on the registration. #gapol
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beachbumbob
(9,263 posts)typically the security enveloped with the actual signature is tossed after this process. So no such thing to go back and check if this is the standard practice of the local election people
Nevilledog
(50,676 posts)They're just asking for something they know is impossible so they can scream about it.
OR
They're fucking stupid.
onethatcares
(16,133 posts)I'll take, "They're fucking stupid".
Keep up the good work.
Midnight Writer
(21,547 posts)They know their followers don't understand this minutia, and they take advantage of it.
Chainfire
(17,305 posts)Take the semi-truck load of ballots and envelopes and dump them, loose-leaf, on Trump campaign headquarters lawn and tell them to count to their heart's content, they can count, recount, add votes, subtract votes, destroy the machines or whatever they wish. The election is over, Trump lost.
The Republicans are now starting to eat their own. Trump's legal team is now claiming that the Governor and the Secretary of State were involved in a criminal conspiracy to defeat Trump. At some point, some of these false claims need to be sued for slander an liable and take the campaign and their complicit lawyers down.
This craziness is not cute any more.
CrispyQ
(36,226 posts)MAGAs threatening to boycott the GA run off election in January might be a start.
Chainfire
(17,305 posts)peggysue2
(10,811 posts)Is a classic strategy in voter suppression, historically and currently used to limit the voting power of minorities, most specifically in AA communities and districts. Giuliani tipped his hand when he openly admitted that if the votes in Wayne Co., Michigan were thrown out, the Michigan result would be far different.
Duh!
In addition to trying to steal an election, these pols and lowlifes are openly displaying racism of the worst kind, denying a full swath of the American population their voice, their clout, their choice.
It's disgusting and should be called out as such.
Purdue is a corrupt weasel. VOTE HIM OUT!
LisaL
(44,962 posts)After ballot is accepted for counting, it's separated from the envelope.
Trump is allowed to ask for a recount of ballots, but that's it. There is no way now to match the ballot with the envelope because ballot is supposed to be secret.
Here is the article explaining the process.
"That verification process reviewed signatures on absentee ballot envelopes when they were received at county election offices. Then ballots are separated from envelopes to protect the secret ballot, leaving no way to link voters to the candidates they chose. The right to cast a ballot in secret is guaranteed by the state Constitution."
https://www.ajc.com/politics/how-georgia-verifies-signatures-on-absentee-ballots/JCF7E2HMGNGG5M3Z4D3SRAXUZM/