ATLANTA (AP) – President Donald Trump has falsely claimed that Georgia election officials cannot verify signatures on absent ballot envelopes because of a legal settlement known as a consent decree.
Take a look at Trump’s claims in a tweet on Saturday:
Trump: “Consent decree signed by Georgia Secretary of State, with the approval of Governor Brian Campiga at the insistence of @statiabrams, makes it impossible to check and match signatures on ballots and envelopes. Cheat. Real signatures must be exposed!”
Facts: There is nothing in the consent decree that prevents Georgia election officials from verifying signatures. The legal settlement signed in March addresses allegations of a lack of statewide standards for judging signatures on absentee ballot envelopes.
Republican, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Rafansperger said matching signatures is entirely possible, but the state needs it.
When a voter requests an absentee ballot on a paper application, he or she must sign it. Election officials compare signatures in voter registration files before sending ballots to polling officials, RefencePerg said.
When those ballots are returned, the required signatures on the external envelope are compared with the signatures in the voter registration system.
The Consent Order, in this legal settlement, which was signed on March 6, described the process in detail.
The lawsuit was filed by the Democratic Party, which led to the agreement, arguing that minorities were disproportionately affected after their ballots were rejected. Among other things, the settlement sets out steps to notify local election officials in a timely fashion – by phone, mail or email – about problems with signatures.
Changes were made by the State Election Board.
Following state law, Georgia gains the right to vote in presidential elections. Democrat B Biden leads Trump in the state with nearly 14,000 votes. There are no instances of similar repetition that have overturned leads of that intensity.
Lawyer L. The signing issue was once again questioned after a federal lawsuit was filed Friday by Lynn Wood Jr. The Secretary of State was questioned as to whether he had the authority to require the process of verification of the signature indicated in the agreement.
Wood is known to represent many high-profile clients, including security guard Richard Jewel, who was identified as a suspect in the 1996 Sentinel Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta but later cleared it.
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