In its final canvass report for the 2022 primary election, Maricopa County says it rejected 14 times more signatures than it did in the 2020 general election. This comes on the heels of Attorney General Mark Brnovich’s finding that the county’s standards for signature verification were “insufficient to guard against abuse.”
“Canvass Queen” Liz Harris, so named after conducting an 11-month long independent grassroots audit of the 2020 election in Maricopa County, told The Arizona Sun Times, “The entire voting system needs an entire overhaul. Period.”
The official Maricopa County canvass found that during the August election, 3,364 ballots were rejected for “bad signatures” out of 866,924, which is .0038 percent. In contrast, in 2020, 584 ballots were rejected for “bad signatures” out of 2,089,563 total votes, which represents a much smaller .00028 percent. This translates to 14 times more ballots rejected for “bad signatures during” the August primary.
Similarly, in this month’s primary election, 1,137 ballots – .0013 percent of total ballots tabulated – were rejected for no signatures, whereas a smaller percentage of ballots with no signatures were rejected in 2020. Only 938 were rejected, or .00044 percent of the total ballots tabulated, meaning there were three times as many votes rejected for no signature in 2022.
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