Reply #5: The ballots are absentees, still in their original mailing envelopes... [View All]

[claudiajean]

...unopened.

They were kicked out during the signature verification process becasue the voter had no signature on file in the computer system.

Not the voter's fault -- the computer system was upgraded this year and some data was screwed up, including some voter signatures.

What the procedure was supposed to be was that if the voter's comparison signature is not present on the computer, then the election staff was supposed to go to the original voter registration cards and check the signature on the paper copy.

That never happened. For whatever reason, and it's appearing to be an erroneous order from the inexperienced and frankly unqualified superintendent of elections, these ballots were never checked further and were noted on the computer records as "do not tally".

So they were never even opened, let alone tallied. They have never even been out of their original absentee ballot envelopes.