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Nevilledog

(50,676 posts)
Sun Nov 22, 2020, 03:04 PM Nov 2020

Sitting U.S. senator demonstrates he has no clue how elections work in his own state (Perdue)



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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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Sitting U.S. senator demonstrates he has no clue how elections work in his own state (Perdue) (Original Post) Nevilledog Nov 2020 OP
this would have been done the first time around with a GOP and Democratic election person involved, beachbumbob Nov 2020 #1
The signature verification was conducted during the audit. Nevilledog Nov 2020 #2
for $200.00 onethatcares Nov 2020 #3
And I'll take "They're just asking for something impossible so they can scream about it". Midnight Writer Nov 2020 #8
The election has been certified. They can get their machine recount and then; Chainfire Nov 2020 #4
Maybe the party will split? CrispyQ Nov 2020 #6
It the Republican Party split, the two new parties would be the Assholes and the Lunatics. Chainfire Nov 2020 #9
This whole 'signature' thing peggysue2 Nov 2020 #5
Signature verification happens before ballot is accepted for counting. LisaL Nov 2020 #7
Rt for Glenn Kessler Cha Nov 2020 #10
K&R. nt Wednesdays Nov 2020 #11
 

beachbumbob

(9,263 posts)
1. this would have been done the first time around with a GOP and Democratic election person involved,
Sun Nov 22, 2020, 03:12 PM
Nov 2020

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)
2. The signature verification was conducted during the audit.
Sun Nov 22, 2020, 03:14 PM
Nov 2020

They're just asking for something they know is impossible so they can scream about it.

OR

They're fucking stupid.

Midnight Writer

(21,547 posts)
8. And I'll take "They're just asking for something impossible so they can scream about it".
Sun Nov 22, 2020, 04:15 PM
Nov 2020

They know their followers don't understand this minutia, and they take advantage of it.

Chainfire

(17,305 posts)
4. The election has been certified. They can get their machine recount and then;
Sun Nov 22, 2020, 03:18 PM
Nov 2020

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)
6. Maybe the party will split?
Sun Nov 22, 2020, 03:22 PM
Nov 2020

MAGAs threatening to boycott the GA run off election in January might be a start.

peggysue2

(10,811 posts)
5. This whole 'signature' thing
Sun Nov 22, 2020, 03:18 PM
Nov 2020

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)
7. Signature verification happens before ballot is accepted for counting.
Sun Nov 22, 2020, 03:24 PM
Nov 2020

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/

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