Yea I shouldn’t have been so pedantic
I live in Ohio. They require voter id and signature match. I voted early today for school board seats and a school levy. In an example of just how arbitrary and absurd signature match is, I’m standing there with my Id already checked to confirm my identity.
I sign my signature on an electronic pad.
Lady: ummm try again on the signature. Think more like you would sign your legal name.
I sign my full name.
Lady: umm no your first one was closer but more like a real signature not just scribbling on a credit card
I try again.
No. Do you just want to come around here and look at what we have on file to see how you need to sign.
I look at what they have on file and was then able to get my signature accepted on the 4th try.
So basically they can reject whoever they want. Especially on absentee/mail ballots, where you aren’t there to try multiple times.
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jfc
My signature on an electronic tablet always looks like shit compared to my regular signature with pen and paper.
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Jesus this is insane. You know they aren’t letting black people come around and look at their signature to get it right.
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My signature with pen and paper looks like shit. I wouldn’t even try to vote if there’s signature match in place b/c I could write it 100x and it’d look different each time.
I sign everything the last few years with a horizontal line scribbled across the page.
Yea I’m not sure what happens in person voting when you can’t match the signature but your ID checks out. I know exactly what it means for mail voting. They can pick and choose whatever mail ballots they want to accept.
https://twitter.com/donmoyn/status/1454238512107171842
https://twitter.com/donmoyn/status/1454241271288111105
https://twitter.com/donmoyn/status/1454241819429122052
https://twitter.com/donmoyn/status/1379620184739213312
Republicans are going straight Cultural Revolution.
Republicans disband Democratic voting board in Georgia, new board reduces voting stations from 7 down to 1
Lincoln County is trying to close all but one polling place for next year’s elections, a move opposed by voting and civil rights groups.
Relocating voters from the county’s seven precincts to a single location will make voting “easier and more accessible” and eliminate the need to transport voting equipment and staff the remaining sites, according to a news release. Community members disagreed.
“Lincoln County is a very rural county. Some people live as far as 23 miles from the city of Lincolnton,” said Denise Freeman, an activist and former Lincoln County school board member. “This is not about convenience for the citizens. This is about control. This is about the good old boys wanting to do what they’ve always done, which is power and control.”
The move was made possible after the Georgia General Assembly passed legislation earlier this year disbanding the Lincoln County Board of Elections. The chief sponsor of Senate bills 282 and 283 was Sen. Lee Anderson, R-Grovetown, whose district includes Lincoln County. The newly-appointed board agreed to move forward with the “consolidation” plan and was expected to vote on it last week, but appeared to lack a quorum, several said.
lol quoting this uncritically
“relocating from seven locations to one will make voting more accessible” yea sure thing boss
Is it really a war if one side just keeps carpet bombing the other with no resistance?
Not a good look when the resistance you speak of is included in the tweet.
Apologies, should have said no meaningful resistance.
The real problem is the gerrymander that makes it virtually impossible for Democrats to control the state legislature in Wisconsin, combined with the SCOTUS ruling in favor of gerrymandering in the past. So the only way to overcome it is a federal law, which Democrats are not passing.
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~7min Newshour report last night on new rules for mail-in ballot applications in Texas.
Shot:
It requires that voters provide either a partial Social Security number or a driver’s license number on their ballot application. And that number has to match what’s on their original voter registration. The problem is, most people don’t remember what form of I.D. they initially provided, especially older voters who registered decades ago.
Chaser:
“You can’t call them back to cure a problem with their application or their ballot, because that’s seen as promoting by-mail voting, when all we really want to do is figure out what their new correct identification number should be.”
A violation carries a mandatory minimum of six months imprisonment and a fine of up to $10,000.
To clarify, that’s the election worker risking jail if they try to help a voter fix the problem with their application. LOLWTF
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Gotta take the wins where you can. AZ election overhaul bill probably dead:
The bill would have also required that ballots be counted by hand, instead of using electronic equipment to tabulate election results – and returns completed within 24 hours after polls close.
LOL, maybe you can have one of these things but not both.
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That was my thought too, then I realized that’s the point. Bumblefuck areas will have no problem doing that. Good luck in Phoenix, though!
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