Without signature verification of voter eligibility, Georgia hand recount will be incomplete:
https://dailytorch.com/2020/11/without-signature-verification-of-voter-eligibility-georgia-hand-recount-will-be-incomplete/
Georgia is undertaking a hand recount of ballots cast in the 2020 election in an effort to ensure ballot integrity, but with absentee mail-in ballots already separated from their envelopes, it may be impossible to pull back any votes even if they were cast by ineligible voters. Why? Because under state law, a voter’s signature goes on the envelope containing the secret ballot, not the ballot itself. As a result, even if a number of voters are found to have cast votes that were ineligible, there will not be an easy way to remedy the damage that was caused. Making matters worse, the state of Georgia arbitrarily changed state law on signature verification of absentee ballots via a March 2020 judicial consent decree with Georgia Democrats — without ever going to the state legislature. It changed the statutory requirement that the signature must match the signature on the voter registration card to simply matching the signature on the absentee ballot application. The danger of removing the voter registration card from the mix is that it becomes possible for individuals to both request and submit absentee mail-in ballots on behalf of somebody else — potentially without their knowledge. And now that the ballots have been separated from the envelopes, even if it a great number of voters are later determined to have been ineligible to vote after the fact — whether because they live out of state or the signatures didn’t match — the votes themselves will remain tabulated.
