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Junk Mail Voting provides cheating as this example shows.
Reynaldo “Rey” Valenzuela, Maricopa County director of elections, showed the court 1,600 signatures reviewed by him personally during the general election and gave the court an overview of the process based on his 33 years of experience.
The court found the Election Director signature review consisted of “153 level one reviewers, 43 level two reviewers, and two ongoing audits.” (12% had further review).
www.azfamily.com
So of the 1,600 signatures reviewed by The Election Director he asked that 198 have further review or about 81% PASSED!
This is in contrast to the signature verification workers with the "sham clicking through" who had 99.99% or close to that approval rates.
Lake’s attorneys argue more than 270k signatures county verified in less than three seconds
azcapitoltimes.com
BUT the Judge ruled : Lake’s attorneys need to prove no signature verification took place.
azcapitoltimes.com
Just a note: So according to the judge, comparing the ballot signature to the voter file signature, in 1 second would qualify!
In summary.. This is an example why signature verification which is required for ALL elections with mail in ballots are a major problem.
"In Maricopa county the difference between Lake, a Trump endorsed Republican and 2020 election denier, lost to Hobbs by more than 17,000 votes.
“Objectively speaking — a comparison between voter records and signatures was conducted in every instance (Lake) asked the Court to evaluate,”
Thompson wrote.
www.azmirror.com
If the Election Director who verified 1,600 signatures had 12% of the signatures he reviewed had to have further review... BUT...BUT
the Signature verification workers verified 99.99% of the 206,648 early ballot affidavit signatures, in an average of 4.6 seconds per signature.
Can you tell me which of these examples signatures are the real signature... and do it in 4.6 seconds.?
If the verification process results of the Election Director for Maricopa County of which 12% were rejected, was done by signature verifiers
that would mean 12% of 206,648 verified signatures were wrong or 25,572 ballots should have been rejected. Lake lost by 17,000 votes!
By the way,
The Maricopa County Elections Department is committed to providing voters with accurate information about elections administration in the country’s second largest voting jurisdiction.
If the Maricopa county Election Director found 12% signature verification, in the 2020 presidential election 73 million votes—or 46% of all votes cast—were cast by mail.,
The early data available regarding mail voting in the 2020 general election suggests that election officials rejected a lower percentage of mail ballots than in previous years but, due to the increase of mail voting, a higher absolute number of mail ballots. This report examines the signature verification landscape across the United States during the 2020 elections, with a particular emphasis on the battleground states of Arizona, Florida, North Carolina, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.https://web.mit.edu/healthyelections/www/sites/default/files/2021-06/Signature_Verification.pdf
web.mit.edu
73 million votes at 4.6 seconds to verify or 11,659 people working 8 hours.
www.reuters.com
Look at the above link for how computers are "verifying" signatures!
Reynaldo “Rey” Valenzuela, Maricopa County director of elections, showed the court 1,600 signatures reviewed by him personally during the general election and gave the court an overview of the process based on his 33 years of experience.
The court found the Election Director signature review consisted of “153 level one reviewers, 43 level two reviewers, and two ongoing audits.” (12% had further review).

Kari Lake signature verifications claim rejected by judge
Judge Peter A. Thompson ruled the court didn’t find "clear and convincing evidence" regarding Lake's claim.
This is in contrast to the signature verification workers with the "sham clicking through" who had 99.99% or close to that approval rates.
Lake’s attorneys argue more than 270k signatures county verified in less than three seconds

Lake’s attorneys argue more than 270k signatures county verified in less than three seconds | Arizona Capitol Times
A judge heard closing arguments from counsel for failed gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake, as well as Maricopa County, the Secretary of State and the governor on the signature verification count remanded by the Arizona Supreme Court.

BUT the Judge ruled : Lake’s attorneys need to prove no signature verification took place.

Judge: Lake’s attorneys need to prove no signature verification took place | Arizona Capitol Times
A superior court judge tasked failed gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake’s attorneys with proving no signature verification took place at any level in Maricopa County during the November 2022 election.

In summary.. This is an example why signature verification which is required for ALL elections with mail in ballots are a major problem.
"In Maricopa county the difference between Lake, a Trump endorsed Republican and 2020 election denier, lost to Hobbs by more than 17,000 votes.
“Objectively speaking — a comparison between voter records and signatures was conducted in every instance (Lake) asked the Court to evaluate,”
Thompson wrote.

Kari Lake loses trial to overturn the election, again
Democrat Katie Hobbs is still Arizona’s governor, Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Peter Thompson ordered Monday evening in a ruling that dismissed Kari Lake’s claim that the 2022 general election was stolen from her through the county’s failure to verify voter signatures

If the Election Director who verified 1,600 signatures had 12% of the signatures he reviewed had to have further review... BUT...BUT
the Signature verification workers verified 99.99% of the 206,648 early ballot affidavit signatures, in an average of 4.6 seconds per signature.
Can you tell me which of these examples signatures are the real signature... and do it in 4.6 seconds.?
If the verification process results of the Election Director for Maricopa County of which 12% were rejected, was done by signature verifiers
that would mean 12% of 206,648 verified signatures were wrong or 25,572 ballots should have been rejected. Lake lost by 17,000 votes!
By the way,
The Maricopa County Elections Department is committed to providing voters with accurate information about elections administration in the country’s second largest voting jurisdiction.
If the Maricopa county Election Director found 12% signature verification, in the 2020 presidential election 73 million votes—or 46% of all votes cast—were cast by mail.,
The early data available regarding mail voting in the 2020 general election suggests that election officials rejected a lower percentage of mail ballots than in previous years but, due to the increase of mail voting, a higher absolute number of mail ballots. This report examines the signature verification landscape across the United States during the 2020 elections, with a particular emphasis on the battleground states of Arizona, Florida, North Carolina, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.https://web.mit.edu/healthyelections/www/sites/default/files/2021-06/Signature_Verification.pdf
Stanford-MIT Healthy Elections Project
Signature Verification and Witness Requirements in the 2020 Elections


Factbox: U.S. counties using automated signature verification software
U.S. election officials trying to deliver speedy results with limited staff have increasingly turned to software that matches signatures on ballot envelopes to voter records. At least 29 counties across eight states use the artificial intelligence technology on mail-in ballots to ease the...