Few Michigan Absentee Ballots Were Rejected over Bad Signatures Now Deemed IllegalKyle Olson 17 Mar 2021
Few absentee ballots were rejected by Michigan ballot counters after Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson (D) changed the evaluation rules, a move declared illegal by a Michigan judge last week.
WDIV reported in December that just 15,302 of the state’s 3.3 million general election absentee votes were not accepted.
“Most rejected ballots were not accepted due to arriving too late, voters moving to a different Michigan jurisdiction after their vote was cast or voters casting ballots while alive but dying before Election Day,†according to the news station.
Votes rejected related to signatures:
No signature: 1,852 ballots
Signature did not match: 1,400 ballots
WDIV said just .04 percent — or one in every 2,357 absentee ballots — were rejected because a counter determined the signature on the ballot did not match one on file.
Despite an increase in absentee balloting from the August primary to the November general election, “the rate of rejection for signature issues fell between August and November from 0.14 percent to 0.1 percent.â€
Breitbart News reported the rules Benson unilaterally created were deemed illegal by Michigan Court of Claims Chief Judge Christopher Murray March 9.
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