Judge, an Obama appointee, rules signatures don’t have to match on absentee ballots

Judge, an Obama appointee, rules signatures don’t have to match on absentee ballots

by WorldTribune Staff, October 28, 2020 Election officials can’t throw out absentee ballots whose signatures do not match those on file, a federal judge in South Carolina ruled on Tuesday. U.S. District Judge Richard Mark Gergel, an appointee of President Barack Obama, said that the signature authorization procedures being used by local authorities were “subjective.” […]