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Trump's election fraud: Signature match

Trump has repeatedly complained that mail-in ballots in Georgia's 2020 election are fraudulent because signatures were not matched. In fact, signatures are matched by election officials in Georgia both when a person requests a mail-in ballot, and when the ballot is returned.

Reliability: 0.9, Confidence: 0.15

References

Reference Entailment Degree Comment
CLAIM_test-channel_9e5d69b3-5bb7-46 Supports 0.9 According to Gabriel Sterling of the Secretary of State's office, it is impossible to tie back an envelope to a ballot since the envelopes and the ballots are separated once the signatures are verified.
CLAIM_test-channel_3172da6e-8301-46 Supports 0.9 There were more than 2,000 absentee ballots rejected in the November election in Georgia because of a missing or invalid signature, roughly the same percentage as in 2018.
CLAIM_test-channel_8f735ae4-f017-4c Supports 0.9 Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, a Republican, said that not only is it entirely possible to match signatures, but that the state requires it. Signatures are matched twice.
CLAIM_test-channel_59dad2d2-be6c-42 Contradicts 0.9 The Consent Decree is a legal agreement that was signed on March 6 between Sec. of State Brad Raffensperger and a group of Democratic organizations to settle a lawsuit by the Democrats against Georgia over, generally, how signature matching is done.
CLAIM_test-channel_2a6086ba-9f35-4f Supports 0.9 A statement by the Director of Auburn University's Election Administration Initiative, Kathleen Hale on npr.org indicates that the signature verification process for mail-in votes was allowed to commence weeks before election day.

Reviews

Reviewer Score Comment
FACT_CHECKER_test-channel_c48g2071-947e-83 0.9 Contrary to Trump's claims of unmatched signatures, facts have shown that all main-in ballots that had challenges with signature verification were rejected. Every single absentee ballot was verified.
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