Democrats say the motivation is a partisan response to unfounded election-fraud allegations.Īnother battle over local election control is unfolding in Colorado, where Mesa County commissioners appointed a new elections supervisor to counter the secretary of state’s replacement in an investigation into election security breaches this past May. Brian Kemp, say a cleanup effort is overdue because of election mismanagement. The state board appointed a three-person panel (two Republicans and one Democrat) to review election management in heavily Democratic Fulton, the largest county in Georgia. GEORGIA, COLORADO: WHO WILL BE IN CHARGE?Ī potential state-appointed elections superintendent in Fulton County, Ga., would have the “political will” to fire and replace election managers and staff, said Matthew Mashburn, a Republican member of the state’s election board. 1) that was delayed by quorum-denying Democrats will be in position for final passage. When the state Senate meets on Thursday, the voting bill ( S.B. Now that many Texas House Democrats have returned to Austin, the proposed limitations on how Texas counties can conduct elections could be on the desk of Gov. TEXAS: VOTING BILL COULD GO TO THE GOVERNOR THIS WEEK
(Were you forwarded this newsletter? Subscribe for free.) 27, 2021Įmail interview, Matthew Weil, director of the elections project at the Bipartisan Policy Center, Sept.Contractors working for Cyber Ninjas examine and recount ballots from the 2020 general election at Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Phoenix. 27, 2021Įmail interview, Trey Grayson, former Kentucky Secretary of state and former president of the National Association of Secretaries of State and current managing director of CivicPoint, Sept. Interview, Maricopa County Elections Department communications director Megan Gilbertson, Sept. The highly contested audit found 17,000 images of "duplicate" ballot envelopes.ĭuplicate ballot envelopes are created when election officials contact voters with inconsistent or blank signatures to cure their signatures.Īrizona State Legislature, Receipt of voter's ballot cure period in Texas, not somewhere closer Our rulingįacebook posts claim that "the Arizona forensic audit found over 17,000 duplicates of votes." to try to cure their signatures," Gilbertson said.įact-check: Why Haitians are crossing into the U.S. "We dedicated people to continue to call those voters. As a result, said Gilbertson, there was a spike in duplicate envelopes after the election as workers contacted people who had cast their ballots on or shortly before Election Day. However, Arizona state law gives Maricopa County staff five business days after an election to contact voters with inconsistent signatures. Some social media users have pointed to the fact that a number of duplicate images were created after the election as evidence of voter fraud. "The (presence of these duplicated envelopes) is normal and appropriate, and it’s a sign that our team is doing their job" she said.
The presence of "duplicate" ballot envelope images in the county’s database does not prove that illegitimate votes were recorded during the 2020 presidential election, but that election workers were reaching out to voters with inconsistent signatures, said Megan Gilbertson, spokesperson for Maricopa elections.
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