An election official in Hartford, Conn., carries a box of postal ballots on Aug. 11.
Georgia’s mail-in ballot is in the spotlight, not just for the 2020 presidential election but also for the upcoming Senate race. Greg Dolezal, a State senator, recently ran his own test of the state’s rigour for matching signatures on mail-in ballots, and the results showed that the system failed.
Dolezal filed his application for a postal ballot on November 28 to be used in the second round of senate elections. When he submitted his application, he deliberately used a different signature than that on his ID card. As a result, he successfully received a postal ballot on Tuesday (December 15).
Dolezal posted a picture on Twitter comparing the signatures he used to apply for the postal vote with those on his ID card.
“I tested a signature match on a Georgia mail-in ballot and it failed.” Dolezal wrote, “I’m tired of the deniers saying there’s no evidence and signature matching doesn’t work. Here’s the evidence. Isn’t it strange that out of 1,322,529 postal ballot signatures in November’s election, only 2,011 were rejected? We have to solve this problem.
In an interview with The Georgia Star News, Dolezal explained that he took The initiative to test The validity of signature matching because he suspected that local officials were just bragging about it and didn’t actually check The signature matching themselves.
“I chuckled, but it was appalling. What struck me was that there was a mismatch between our signatures, but all these elected officials said there was no evidence of a problem. I decided to test the system, and I made the stupidest example, using myself.” Dolezal said.
President Donald Trump has called for Joe to match postal signatures, and state Secretary Brad Raffensperger announced On Monday that his office would review Cobb County’s postal signatures, followed by a statewide review. However, he pointed out at the news conference that the decision to review was not due to a problem with matching signatures.
Dolezal told reporters that Lafensperger’s account may not be entirely accurate.
“I don’t know how he could make such a statement. As far as I know, he hasn’t seen any signatures yet. The reality is that he needs to set up a broader network for vetting.” Interestingly, Dolezal says, Georgia has 159 counties that handle signature matching on their own. If his county ignored the wrong signature, imagine the situation in other counties. He says his county is doing better in every way.
Dolezal said that if signature reviews were widespread in The state, as they were required to do last month, more problems would surely emerge. Dolezal told The Georgia Star New that no one from The secretary of State’s office has contacted him about The signature matching error.
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