All true, but this all presents an absolute NEED for election laws to be legislated like the SAVE Act.
That shit must not happen again.
What does the save act have to do with this thread and the article on signature matches and cures?
No one committed fraud....
Some genius mathematician or statistician guy the Republicans in the ArizonaSenate hired, believes on a test he performed on a 499 ballot sampling of signatures on mail in ballots that they found 60 ballots that were not precise matches and needed to be set aside and not counted unless the voter notified, was able to cure their miss matched signature to the file. This 60 that did not initially have matches out of the 499 came to 12% of all the ballots he did this test run on, needed curing for mismatched signatures.
Based on these 499 mail in ballots in their test sampling checked, they are applying the 12% mismatch rate to get an estimate of mismatches there should have been for the
+/- 2.0 million mail in ballots ....which is roughly 200,000 ballots mismatched. This figure is what the guy is projecting, estimating there to be if his theory is correct.
There were only 25000 (+1.3%) counted as mismatched in the county in 2020 of which only +/- 500 were actually never cured by the voter, thus not counted in the tallies. And never cured does not mean the ballots were fraudulent..... It means the voter could not make it back in to show ID and sign again proving it's them...likely the real ABSENTEE ballot voter who is truly out of town on business or in the Military stationed elsewhere could not make it back in to show proof it is them.
And since around 1.3% of mail in ballots failing initially on signature match is around that 1.3% in nearly all States, the 12% signature failure rate that the republicans are using to come up with their 200,000 figure, is very likely...actually, very very very very likely, to be false....a bad estimate....so, NOT true.