'Audit' expert Shiva Ayyadurai didn't understand election procedures. He made a number of false...
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'Audit' expert Shiva Ayyadurai didn't understand election procedures. He made a number of false...
The audience in the Senate gallery oohed and aahed as Shiva Ayyadurai drew its attention to a “verified and approved” stamp that appeared behind a triangle on the image of an early ballot envelope,...
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9:12 AM · Oct 1, 2021
https://www.azmirror.com/2021/10/01/audit-expert-shiva-ayyadurai-didnt-understand-election-procedures-he-made-a-number-of-false-signature-claims/
The audience in the Senate gallery oohed and aahed as Shiva Ayyadurai drew its attention to a “verified and approved” stamp that appeared behind a triangle on the image of an early ballot envelope, unsubtly suggesting that it might have been pre-printed that way.
“It’s almost as though it was imaged on there. I don’t want to say Photoshopped, but put on there. But it’s quite fascinating. I’m sure there’s some explanation for this,” Ayyadurai said. The remark elicited laughter from an audience largely composed of audit supporters who believed, without factual basis, that the 2020 election was rigged against Donald Trump, a position Ayyadurai himself has aggressively promoted.
It turns out there was an explanation, and a simple one at that. But Ayyadurai appeared to have absolutely no knowledge of Maricopa County policies and procedures regarding the early ballot envelopes and signature verification. That shortcoming would be a consistent theme as he presented his findings as part of the so-called audit of the election in Maricopa County, portraying commonplace occurrences and standard procedures as potentially suspicious.
And Senate President Karen Fann has asked the attorney general to investigate Ayyadurai’s obviously false findings.
I just thought his testimony — if you can call it testimony — was a little bit ridiculous.
– Helen Purcell, former Maricopa County Recorder
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I'd suggest first looking at a picture of the signature side of an Arizona mail in ballot:
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Or here:
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Then look at the Shiva's picture from the bottom of the OP article. Finally, from the article:
"When Runbeck Election Services, the company that prints Maricopa County’s ballots and envelopes, scans the outbound and incoming early ballot envelopes, it does so in a binary format that only uses black and white pixels, with no gray shading. To save space with its file sizes and increase the speed at which ballots and envelopes can be scanned, the binary format doesn’t fill in blocks of solid color, said Jeff Ellington, Runbeck’s CEO.
So, the solid black triangles that point to the signature box on the envelopes become white triangles with black borders. All of the ink inside the triangles and other shapes, including any parts of the approval stamps that happened to be made over the triangle, are removed. The Arizona Mirror was shown examples of this technology from the scanning process of Arizona and Colorado ballot envelopes at Runbeck’s Phoenix facility. "
You can also see the visual glitch manifest slightly in the left-most downward pointing arrow.
I do think it's a bit strange that they'd get any compression improvements from that behavior though. Must be using an ancient algorithm.
I wonder if that algorithm could have been responsible for some of the blank signatures? Imagine someone signs with a marker, for instance, and those large black letters become treated as empty space to "optimize" away?
