.@TeamTrump has requested signature verification FIVE TIMES. https://t.co/DY3lKrrRlo
— Jenna Ellis (@JennaEllisEsq) December 4, 2020
Governor Brain Kemp (R), after weeks of ignoring pleas from concerned citizens, is now calling for a “signature audit” of ballots in Georgia.
“I would again call for [a signature audit],” Kemp told Fox News. Under state law signature matching can only be ordered by Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, who has so far refused to do so.
Once mail-in ballots have been separated from the envelopes they arrived in, it is impossible to trace ballots back to those envelopes for ID verification. What can be determined through a signature audit however, is the percentage of envelopes where the signatures don’t match, are invalid, belong to individuals who are not Georgia residents or are deceased – information that can still prove vital to ascertaining whether the margin of victory in the state holds.