This is a myth that's been spreading online about Georgia absentee ballots. Long story short:
* The 6% number from 2016 comes from taking into account ballots that arrived late.
* The 0.02% number from 2020 is actually 0.2%, and only takes into account ballots that arrived on time.
The signature rejection rate in 2020 was actually very similar to the rates in 2018 and 2016.
So as usual, these claims are simply bogus. But even if there were problems with the signature matching system, the time to raise objections would have been before the election. Attempting to throw out millions of ballots after the election over these issues is absurd and anti-democratic.
I have no idea what the claim about "most secure election in history" is based on.
I'm responding to the false claim made by Trump and others about numbers of absentee ballots rejected in Georgia. The rate of rejections is similar this year as in previous years.
>The time to raise objections would have been before the
>election.
Trump lawyers did try to prevent these election changes, by taking them to court. The lawsuits were rejected at the time, on the basis on not being able to prove injury/damage, because no damage has occurred yet, only hypothetically.
Now that the damage has occurred, they are told that they should have sued before.
Thats a very sneaky/dishonest way of being treated by the courts.
The fact check does not prove a lie. At most it proves that Trump is not making the statement based on publicly available data. Since the final rejection rate for 2020 have not yet been released.
From the fact check:
"Georgia rejected 6.42% of mail-in ballots in total in the 2016 general election "
"The higher percentage he mentions for past years is likely based off the total rejected ballots (here) which can not be compared with 2020, as this information is not available."
The fact check shows that Trump is conflating two different numbers: the number of ballots that arrive late and the number that are rejected due to signature mismatch. If Trump has any idea what he's talking about, I'm comfortable calling that level of dishonesty a "lie." My view is that he just doesn't care what's true or not, and he probably knows that much of what he's saying is false.
> Trump lawyers did try to prevent these election changes, by taking them to court.
Which changes?
State election laws are set by the state legislature. In Georgia, the Republicans control both houses, plus the governorship. It's hard to believe that the Republican party would have set the rules to disadvantage their own Presidential candidate.
I believe the state of Texas lawsuit currently before the supreme court, (joined by 16 other states) contradicts this. I believe some of the rule changes were made by state election officials, without legislature. Also some counties had different rules than other counties. Which is not legal.
One of his court cases about state election changes made it to the supreme court on appeal before the election..it was turned dow.
But I won't be able to find an article about it now, because when I google things now, it just returns news about the recent court cases.
It's not true.
This is a myth that's been spreading online about Georgia absentee ballots. Long story short:
* The 6% number from 2016 comes from taking into account ballots that arrived late.
* The 0.02% number from 2020 is actually 0.2%, and only takes into account ballots that arrived on time.
The signature rejection rate in 2020 was actually very similar to the rates in 2018 and 2016.
So as usual, these claims are simply bogus. But even if there were problems with the signature matching system, the time to raise objections would have been before the election. Attempting to throw out millions of ballots after the election over these issues is absurd and anti-democratic.
1. https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-georgia-rejecte...