The election integrity organization We the People AZ Alliance (WPAA), which discovered in 2022 that Maricopa County ballot affidavit reviewers were verifying signatures at speeds of up to one signature per second, revealed in a new video this week that reviewers during the 2024 election also verified signatures at a similarly rapid pace.
The group alleged that AI was used, especially in the 2020 election, which the county had previously denied, despite it being mentioned in contracts.
WPAA’s co-founder Shelby Busch, Bryan Blehm, who represented Kari Lake in her election challenge, and WPAA’s technical guru Chris Handsel, who has over 20 years computer experience with databases, analyzed a chart Handsel put together showing a timeline of how many signatures were verified in the days leading up to last fall’s election.
The group observed that up to 25,000 ballot affidavits were reviewed per day during the week immediately preceding the election. Busch said that with employees working 7-hour days, with a break, they would have had to verify one signature per second at a nonstop pace without slowing down.
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