An election is either more secure, less secure or equally secure. It can't be all three at the same time.
Personally I suspect this elect was very similar to 2016, and unless it too was the most secure election in history then we got a small problem.
I'm responding to the false claim made by Trump and others about numbers of absentee ballots rejected in Georgia. The rate of rejections is similar this year as in previous years.
>election.
Trump lawyers did try to prevent these election changes, by taking them to court. The lawsuits were rejected at the time, on the basis on not being able to prove injury/damage, because no damage has occurred yet, only hypothetically.
Now that the damage has occurred, they are told that they should have sued before.
Thats a very sneaky/dishonest way of being treated by the courts.
The fact check does not prove a lie. At most it proves that Trump is not making the statement based on publicly available data. Since the final rejection rate for 2020 have not yet been released.
From the fact check:
"Georgia rejected 6.42% of mail-in ballots in total in the 2016 general election "
"The higher percentage he mentions for past years is likely based off the total rejected ballots (here) which can not be compared with 2020, as this information is not available."
> Trump lawyers did try to prevent these election changes, by taking them to court.
Which changes?
State election laws are set by the state legislature. In Georgia, the Republicans control both houses, plus the governorship. It's hard to believe that the Republican party would have set the rules to disadvantage their own Presidential candidate.
One of his court cases about state election changes made it to the supreme court on appeal before the election..it was turned dow.
But I won't be able to find an article about it now, because when I google things now, it just returns news about the recent court cases.
Stats: https://ballotpedia.org/Election_results,_2020:_Analysis_of_...
It's not true.
This is a myth that's been spreading online about Georgia absentee ballots. Long story short:
* The 6% number from 2016 comes from taking into account ballots that arrived late.
* The 0.02% number from 2020 is actually 0.2%, and only takes into account ballots that arrived on time.
The signature rejection rate in 2020 was actually very similar to the rates in 2018 and 2016.
So as usual, these claims are simply bogus. But even if there were problems with the signature matching system, the time to raise objections would have been before the election. Attempting to throw out millions of ballots after the election over these issues is absurd and anti-democratic.
1. https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-georgia-rejecte...