BREAKING: PA Supreme Court rules election officials are PROHIBITED from rejecting mail-in ballots...

[moreland01]

19. Sorry, I don't agree with y'all on this one.

I've worked Signature Verification in Colorado a few times over the years. The first step is a huge machine (called Aegilis) flies thru all of the returned ballots and automatically matches (at the speed of light!) envelope signatures to the sigs on file. Only ones that aren't an automatic match get kicked out for a Dem and a Repub team to try to match with sigs on file. The County keeps LOTS of versions of people's signatures that they obtain from various areas (drivers license, etc.).

Only after that process, if they still can't get a match, they start seeing if another member in the household could have written the person's name. That does happen quite a bit.

If it's obvious that the person didn't sign their own ballot envelope, the Clerk writes a letter or calls (if election day is close) to ask the person to come down to the Clerk's office to verify their sig in person.

How else do you know that Dad or Mom didn't take everyone's ballot, vote it for them, sign their names and send it in?

I mean, do we not want ANY verification that people aren't having their ballots stolen? I so don't get people's aversion to this one little security check. It's not unAmerican to want to make sure your vote counted and wasn't stolen.