Lindsey Graham wanted to use credit card company technology to throw out absentee ballots in Georgia

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Source: Raw Story

In testimony given to the Jan. 6 committee this Tuesday, Georgia's secretary of state. Brad Raffensperger was questioned over Sen. Lindsey Graham's phone call to him back in November of 2020, where he suggested rejecting mail-in votes in the presidential election from counties with high rates of questionable signatures.

Graham’s phone calls to Raffensperger were followed weeks later by Donald Trump, who asked Raffensperger to “find” 11,780 votes to secure the 2020 election for him.

Raffensperger told the committee that Graham thought credit card companies had technology that Georgia could use to assist with signature matching on ballots in Fulton County, saying that Graham suggested using the technology to go through "all 150,000 absentee ballots very quickly using a machine process."

Raffensperger testified that the call made him "uncomfortable" because he "didn't know where this was going to lead."

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/lindsey-graham-wanted-to-use-credit-card-company-technology-to-throw-out-absentee-ballots-in-georgia/ar-AA15Ia7Y

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Maybe you can be TFG's cell mate Lindsey.

[LiberalFighter]

1. Machine process to help with signature matching?

Graham doesn't know anything about credit card processing.

[yellowdogintexas]

10. or absentee ballot validation either nt

[usaf-vet]

22. Remember signatures are one of the key tools the election deniers want to use to discount ballots...

.... I hope I'm not the only one that sees and hears the right-wing election deniers push schools to cut teaching cursive writing skills from their curriculum.

Suppose the next generation of voters cannot sign their name confidently and repeatedly. Won't that be yet another voter suppression tool for the right-wingers to use to deny legitimate votes?

When you hear the clamor to suppress the teaching of cursive writing skills, ASK YOURSELF WHY!

Remember, they (right-wingers, MAGA cults) are systematically trying to disassemble our Democracy brick by brick which is how you weaken and destroy a sound foundation.

[Bluethroughu]

2. Graham should resign immediately!

He should be in prison for electioneering and intimidating state officals to break the law AND it's not even HIS state.

Jail time is the only way these criminals are going to learn to be decent citizens.

[2naSalit]

6. ++++++++++++++++++++!!!

[liberal N proud]

12. The things most republicans do would force a Democrat to resign

Republicans just let it pass while they would condemn a Democratic official.
The republican base is the same.

[Deuxcents]

3. Where does Graham fit into this investigation? Will there be consequences?

[SCantiGOP]

15. Remember he fought the subpoena in State and Federal Court

He did not want to appear. I don't doubt his testimony was a combination of "I do not recall" and "The Fifth."

[oswaldactedalone]

4. Of course not

[sinkingfeeling]

5. Funny, but credit card companies readily accept my unreadable signature using my finger

on a touch pad. I couldn't even verify it's my signature

[2naSalit]

7. +1

[yellowdogintexas]

11. so does our e-pollbook techology

seriously those signatures the voters put on there are just ludicrous. I have to initial it to release the file so the secret code access can be printed out for the voter. INitials are much easier than a signature

[Maeve]

19. Hubby laughs about "plausible deniablity" of his scrawl

Lord love a duck, I couldn't recognize my own signature, but they accept it every time....What. An. Idgit.

[Botany]

8. Mail-in votes aka absentee votes are already automatically matched and verified as belonging ...

.... to a registered voter via a bar code on the ballot that the voter sends back in as their vote
in the election. At least that is the case in OH and I have no doubt that is the way it is in Georgia.

[HariSeldon]

16. That is frightening

Those ballots are not eligible to be considered secret ballots, then, as anyone who has access to the ballot and the list can determine the actual, specific votes of each and every mail-in voter.

In Washington State, where mail in voting has been the rule for years, the ballot does not indicate at all who voted it (and voters are cautioned not to make any identifying marks on the ballot). To return the ballot, it is sealed in a security envelope which is placed inside a voter-signed outer envelope addressed for mailing. When received by the county auditor, the signature on the outer envelope is matched against the voter file and, if it matches, the security envelope is bagged/boxed with other verified ballots and forwarded to the counting team. The counting team should never see a ballot that is still associated with its outer, signed envelope, nor should the signature verifiers ever see a ballot outside its security envelope. I'm sure errors (especially by voters) do occur, but the system is designed to allow the actual votes to be secret while assuring extra votes are not cast.

[chwaliszewski]

21. I live in WA state...

and this past election, I received a letter stating that my signature did not match the one they had on file and had 3 weeks to correct it at one of their offices. Showed up, with ID in hand, and signed a form for them to put on file. They said it did not match the one they had but added it to their records so that either one of them would be a match. Just to be safe, I signed my voting card the same way I had just signed their form so this wouldn't be a problem in the future.

My point here is the mail-in ballot system works just fine. If some states don't like it, then the least they can do is have an Election Week instead of an Election Day.

[dchill]

9. To be clear, "signature matching" means this:

Any two Republican signatures match; NO two Democratic signatures match. It ain't rocket science!

[yellowdogintexas]

13. we do not register by party so ballot board has NO

clue what party affiliation is involved.

Remember the signature verification is only using the signature on the outside of the envelope. The actual ballot is inside another envelope which is scanned on Election Day

Even in a state where voters register by party, ballot board checkers have no idea how anyone has voted. Voter preferences remain sealed until they are scanned.

[dchill]

14. The signature verification laws were put in place to suppress...

...the vote in Democratic districts. I stand by my fairly satirical comments.

[yellowdogintexas]

35. I don't disagree, but when the ballots are being

verified by the ballot board, there is no way the screeners can know how that voter voted or what party they prefer.

[Irish_Dem]

17. Lindsay didn't think of this by himself.

So the GOP is talking about ways to use technology and large data bases to steal elections.

[tinymontgomery]

23. I'll be writing to Graham in the morning about this, in the morning

I'll be writing to Graham in the morning about this, in the morning since he's my crooked senator.

[Blue Owl]

25. Fuck Lindsey Graham

[ificandream]

28. All this blatant cheating by Repughs. They don't even try to hide it.

[ZonkerHarris]

29. Here's a tip for all election officials: Do not take calls from out of state officials after an

election

[pwb]

30. I found the 11,780 votes.

Trump killed them with his Covid Hoax shit. He defeated himself. What a dumb fuck.

[No Vested Interest]

31. Signatures change; People have strokes and have to switch to other hand for writing; arthritis in

hand or wrist changes signatures. Younger voters may not be using cursive writing but print their names instead.
Family lost use of her hand and arm because of a stroke. She now prints her name with other hand.

Signature matching is not an exact science.

[BumRushDaShow]

32. Lock him up.

[Vinca]

33. Wish old Lindsey had been at least a little concerned over Mark Meadows and his

never seen trailer in the sticks that became his address for voting. Or the Trumpers who used the dead relative's mail-in ballots to cast more than one vote. Every time you hear about an arrest re voting, it's a Republican involved.

[rlegro]

34. One word: PSEUDOSCIENCE