MID-TERM ELECTIONS

[HairOfTheDog]

Today, a judge in Georgia ruled in favor of Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams and ordered that an extension be given  so voters who had their ballots rejected for signature mismatches have an opportunity to contact the state  to verify and be counted.

I'm very glad to read that. It's honest and it's fair, completely unlike Kemp's suckiness.

Yeah, it was the right ruling.

I've seen several people (of both parties) interviewed who were shocked to learn their ballots had been rejected because an election worker deemed there was a 'mismatch'.  

They weren't contacted and didn't even know their votes hadn't been counted until they watched the news and learned how to check.  I bet there are a lot of people who will never know to check and won't be counted.  :(

I would like to see all states operate under a consistent verification process, a mandate to contact voters proactively if there's a mismatch between their registration and ballot data/signature, and a reasonable means by which voters can verify and be counted quickly.  

When votes are verified after being subjectively discounted, it's not a case of  "votes suddenly or suspiciously being found", of course.  It's a case of election workers doing due diligence instead of tossing out legal votes according to a subjective criteria determined by Secretaries of State (some of whom, like Kemp, control the election processes when they're competing in the election themselves, which should not be permitted).