Georgia Suits Cite 'Train Wreck' Plan for Ballot Signatures
- Groups say voters deserve chance to explain signature mismatch
- GOP targets election fraud; Democrats allege voter suppression
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Allegations that Georgia’s Republican-led election officials are unfairly rejecting mailed-in ballots due to perceived signature mismatches or other hyper-technical errors were heard by a federal judge in Atlanta two weeks before Election Day.
Hundreds -- perhaps thousands -- of ballots are being tossed out because signatures don’t appear to match the ones on file, or because the voter oath is signed on the wrong line, two lawsuits claim. And would-be voters don’t get a chance to fix the errors or provide explanations, they say.