I saw some statistics about signature rejections that gave me pause a few days ago. They were deceptive.
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The Secretary of State's Office has argued it made signature matching even stronger, by adding it as a requirement at the ballot request stage.
"On that one he's just wrong, and it's just confusing to people," Sterling said. "I wish they would understand what the consent decree action did, and what our law actually says, and the practices that our office actually does."
He also noted how allies of the president have also confused the matter by claiming a 3% figure for ballot rejections in 2018, and noting that it was much lower this year.
That, Sterling said, was comparing apples and oranges - the 3% figure was the total number of rejections ("the vast majority of that 3% is the ballots that show up late," he said) versus the number specifically rejected for a signature issue.
The percentage of ballots rejected for signature issues in 2020 has been reported by the Secretary of State's Office at 0.15%.
In 2018, Sterling said, it was also 0.15%.