.@RepRickAllen #gapol #GA12 #Georgia claimed in a Dec 10, 2020 amicus brief to #SCOTUS that @GaSecofState unconstitutionally changed process by which signature matching on absentee ballots could be challenged

Here are the relevant passages from the brief
He cites this as the reason he voted to reject the electors on Jan 6, 2021 https://t.co/5jNSmCNKUP
.@GaSecofState announced a partnership with @universityofga to study absentee ballot signature matching https://t.co/QorrOzOS9l
Another post-election effort by @GaSecofState is a signature matching audit beginning with Cobb County, identified as a model of proper election procedures https://t.co/8GRXbXk0jp
On Dec 29, 2020, the audit of Cobb County revealed, in a sample of >15,000 absentee ballots, that 2 ballots should have been subject to rejection pending giving the 2 voters an opportunity to cure the ballot. Subsequent contact with the 2 voters confirmed https://t.co/WoC9Er3NSq
that both were legitimate and had simply done an error in submitting the ballot.
The consent decree which @RepRickAllen claims is an end-run around the Georgia legislature was mandated to settle chronic problems with signature matching in previous elections https://t.co/O5t9B4NY7f
Of >1.3 million absentee ballots returned to county elections offices for the November election, >2,000 of them were rejected because of an invalid or missing signature. That’s the same signature rejection percentage as the 2018 mid-term election https://t.co/76Mb3ebhz3
A federal court in #Georgia already dismissed #GA12 Republicans' lawsuit challenging the 2020 election changes https://t.co/bNNnSNQmXP
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