This why you need true audits and not recounts. Trump legal team is filing a lawsuit today in Georgia.
If a true audit is done that either shows lack of signature verification or complete loss of chain of custody then I think you could persuade a judge that the final results are not reliable and actually throwing the case out would be what really disenfranchises the will of the people of that state.
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The thing with the signature matching process, though, is it's already been done - and it can't be done again.
Here's the deal: Georgia's laws require county election workers to check the signature when they first get an absentee ballot in the mail or from a drop box.
The actual law itself reads: "The registrar or clerk shall then compare the identifying information on the oath with the information on file in his or her office, shall compare the signature or mark on the oath with the signature or mark on the absentee elector's application for absentee ballot."
Basically, you request an absentee ballot, and you sign an oath affirming you are who you say you are on the envelope you put that ballot in, and then you send it to the county election office. The worker there takes it, checks your signature to verify you are who you say you are, and then sends it along to be counted. That's how signature matching happens in Georgia in its most basic form.
Now, the Georgia Secretary of State's Office actually added a signature matching step this year: When you requested an absentee ballot, they required a signature on your absentee ballot request form (or, if you requested it online, made you submit your driver's license number when you made the request through the Secretary of State's online portal).
So they checked your signature before even sending you a ballot, and then checked it again when they received your ballot.
Here's why they can't do that again, during the current hand-count audit
When President Trump says something like "Georgia won’t let us look at the all important signature match," what he is asking for - to look at the signatures again - is literally impossible.
The reason for that lies inside the Georgia state constitution itself: It clearly stipulates that, "Elections by the people shall be by secret ballot and shall be conducted in accordance with procedures provided by law." (emphasis added)
To comply with that, the only place your signature appears is on the envelope you sent it in. Once an election worker counting votes opens your envelope and takes out your ballot, there is no way to re-connect them.
Counties do keep the envelopes for records purposes, according to Gabriel Sterling in the Secretary of State's Office, but, again - there's no way to connect an envelope with your signature back to your ballot. It simply can't be done.
So when the president says the audit is "meaningless" without going back and looking at signature matching, please understand: It's already been done twice, and there is just no humanly possible way to do it again.
