@Cyber Liberty@IsailedawayfromFR @Hoodat@Smokin JoeAll of you understand I was presenting what CEO John Poulos said. He did say he has said these things under oath. I was glad to find him since I had never heard from an official of Dominion and here he was. I am glad to have his name so I can keep up with what he does from this point forward. He is a nice looking, casual type person and speaks well.
Some of you spoke of signatures and envelopes. Come along with me so you know how signatures are created to be compared and what happens to envelopes.
Please read this:Let's go to a male person, say his name is Roy Smart, who just received his mail ballot. If he sent in an application for that mail ballot, his signature is on that application and the Election Director has that application with his signature on it.
If the Election Director sent mail ballots to
all voters, Roy did not have an application for a mail ballot, therefore the Election Director does not have an application with his signature on it.
Due to the above, the Election Director uses
Roy's original signature when he signed up to be a voter. Now, every Election Director in every county in the nation has an original signature from every voter who gets a mail ballot.
We need another signature from Roy to compare to the one the Election Director has. Using one of the ways above to get a mail ballot, Roy has a mail ballot. Inside the envelope is two more envelopes and the actual ballot. One envelope is a regular size white envelope. After Roy marks his choices on the ballot, he folds it and places it in the white envelope and seals it.
THERE IS NO SIGNATURE ON THE BALLOT OR ENVELOPE. It is this way so no one will know how Roy voted on his ballot.
Now, Roy places the white envelope with the ballot
inside the colored MAILING ENVELOPE. On the back of the colored mailing envelope Roy
MUST sign his name and address. If his
signature is NOT on the back of the mailing envelope, the ballot is rejected when it gets to the Board evaluating mail ballots. That envelope is never opened, it is rejected outright.
WHAT HAPPENS TO ENVELOPES WHEN THE BOARD EVALUATES MAIL BALLOTS:
A Democrat and a Republican, together, evaluate Roy's ballot materials. If his signature is not on the back of the mailing envelope, it is rejected as explained in the paragraph above.
If Roy's mailing envelope has a signature, it is compared to his signature on his application or his signature on his form to become a voter. If they do not match, the committee as a whole examines the two signatures; if they cannot reach a decision, the Judge of the Board, makes the final decision. As the Judge, I have had to do this and that is when the responsibility hits you - do you throw out this ballot or not? I have studied how to determine if two signatures are the same - such as curves in letters, height and width of letters, distances between letters, etc. If the signatures do not match, the ballot materials are clipped together and placed in the stack of rejected ballots. If the signatures do match, the white envelope with the ballot inside is placed with other white envelopes. These white envelopes with ballot inside are opened and the stack is taken to the tabulation room to be counted.
The above is a summary of what happens to various envelopes and ballots. If you have questions, will do my best to answer.
ALSO THIS ABOUT MAILING ENVELOPES
All ballot materials, including mailing envelopes are required to be kept for a certain number of years.
