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Election Integrity Win: Arizona Court Rules Against State's 'Unlawful Signature Matching Process'

 By Randy DeSoto  

September 5, 2023 

The public interest group Restoring Integrity and Trust in Elections declared it had secured a “massive win” for election integrity following a Friday Arizona court ruling in its favor.

In March, RITE sued Democratic Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes arguing his office’s Elections Procedures Manual violates the law regarding the mail-in ballot signature verification process.

“While state law requires county recorders to match mail-ballot signatures with signatures in the voter’s ‘registration record,’ the Secretary instructed them to use a broader and less reliable universe of comparison signatures,” the group said in a Monday news release.

“That means the Secretary was requiring ballots to be counted despite using a signature that did not match anything in the voter’s registration record. This was a clear violation of state law,” RITE asserted.

In a Friday ruling rejecting a motion to dismiss the case filed by Fontes and the group Mi Familia Vota, Yavapai County Superior Court Judge John Napper agreed with RITE’s conclusion concerning the law. 

The court said that the “statute is clear and unambiguous” requiring “the recorder to review the voter’s registration card” and not other documents with the voter’s signature.

Napper further noted, “There is no ambiguity in the statute or process.”

Further, the secretary’s signature-match process in the Elections Procedures Manual unlawfully “contradicts the plain language” of Arizona state law by permitting signature comparison with documents that have “nothing to do with the act of registering.”

Election Integrity Win: Arizona Court Rules Against State's 'Unlawful Signature Matching Process' (westernjournal.com)

One guess as to who was the then Sec of State that changed the signature process in clear violation o the law? Maybe they had a reason , like winning an election or something.

So, does Arizona get a new election or does the old fraudulent one still stand?
 
 

Arizona is now a blue state.
Michigan is now a blue state.
Pennsylvania is now a blue state.
Republicans are ****.