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Re:One in 10 ballots rejected in last month’s vote-by-mail e... by javagram on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @08:26AM (#24119574)
That would be illegal. See the “Bush v Gore” decision which was about a similar idea but applied to counting hanging chads, etc. rather than signatures.
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Re:One in 10 ballots rejected in last month’s vote-by-mail e... by listenallyall on Friday August 14, 2020 @03:13PM (#24162056)
Of course it is illegal. The discussion is about how anti-fraud measures (like signature verification) could potentially be flipped to actually assist in cheating/fraud.

Let's keep in mind, depending on where power lies post-election, that doing something illegal, even if caught, doesn't necessarily means one would be punished for it.

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