AOC and other Democrats urge Georgia voters to fix their absentee ballots before a Friday deadline.

[Celerity]

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/11/05/us/election-results

With Georgia’s 16 electoral votes likely to be decided by a tiny margin, Democrats are urging voters there to fix absentee ballots that were rejected because of invalid or missing signatures before the deadline on Friday evening.

Those who voted absentee — a group that this year has been heavily Democratic — can check online to see whether election officials have accepted or rejected their ballots. Absentee ballots are often rejected when the voter forgets to sign or uses a signature that does not match the one on file with the state, possibly because it is many years old. Election officials are supposed to contact voters in such cases but are not always able to do so.

Voters have until 5 p.m. on Friday to submit a simple affidavit form to “cure” such ballots. With Georgia hanging in the balance as the last votes are counted, national Democrats — including Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York — are amplifying the message in hopes of salvaging every vote possible.

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[littlemissmartypants]

1. NC has the same issue. The local Dem group sent out a request today

for volunteers to help voters with ballot curing.
❤

[TheRealNorth]

2. Has anyone ever challenged the practice of throwing out ballots based on signatures......

As either a form of a literacy test

OR

On equal protections in that person's who vote in-person are not subjected to trying to match a signature?

[Celerity]

3. I do not know, tbh, sorry

[AlexSFCA]

4. not accepting a ballot cause of signature mismatch is non-sense

because it implies voter fraud, and if so, why are they not charging? It seems very arbitrary to me. People do change signatures or have two signatures. Years ago, my ballot was not accepted in CA cause of not matching signature and I only found out about it a month after election with no way to fix it. And yet! there was no word in the letter that I am being accused of fraud. OK, if it is not a fraud then why the ballot is rejected?? They changed the law since then, allowing plenty of time to correct.